Subject: COVID-19
Subject: bilateral pneumonia
Subject: massive pulmonary fibrosis
Year: 2021
Type: Article
Title: MASSIVE PULMONARY FIBROSIS AFTER SEVERE BILATERAL PNEUMONIA AS POST COVID-19 COMPLICATION
Author: Zafirova Ivanovska, Beti
Author: Stojkovic, Jagoda
Abstract: A large number of hospitalized COVID-19 survivors show that persistent symptoms, radiographic abnormalities and physiological impairments exist months after the initial illness. Persistent chest imaging abnormalities and histopathological findings of lung fibrosis were also found in a majority of survivors of the SARS-CoV-1 suggesting that the SARS viruses may lead to a worse fibroproliferative response than other pneumonia. Our patient had a severe COVID-19 pneumonia, followed by massive infiltrative changes in both lungs in addition to massive pulmonary fibrosis. After the initial treatment in one of the COVID-19 centers in the Clinical Center in Skopje, the patient with post-COVID-19 (more precisely pulmonary fibrous changes of the lungs) was referred for further treatment to the University Clinic for Pulmonology in a severe clinical condition, where he was treated at an outpatient basis in the period of several months. During that time the condition improved, with a significant withdrawal of the X-ray finding of the lungs, which was registered on CT from 5.5.2021. He is still under observation. The robust responses of corticosteroid therapy in our case presenting a radiological pattern of organizing pneumonia allowed the patient to return to his baseline clinical condition. But due to the persistence of X-ray residual changes he is under our regular observation.
Publisher: Macedonian Association of Anatomists
Relation: Journal of Morphological Sciences
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/17618
Identifier: IVANOVSKA, Beti Zafirova; STOJKOVIKJ, Jagoda. MASSIVE PULMONARY FIBROSIS AFTER SEVERE BILATERAL PNEUMONIA AS POST COVID-19 COMPLICATION. Journal of Morphological Sciences, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 3, p. 144-148, dec. 2021. ISSN 2545-4706.
Identifier: 2545-4706
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/17618
