Organizing pneumonia : a late phase complication of COVID-19 responding dramatically to corticosteroids
dc.contributor.author | Oliveira Filho, Cilomar Martins de | pt_BR |
dc.contributor.author | Vieceli, Tarsila | pt_BR |
dc.contributor.author | Bassotto, Caroline de Fraga | pt_BR |
dc.contributor.author | Barbato, João Pedro da Rosa | pt_BR |
dc.contributor.author | Garcia, Tiago Severo | pt_BR |
dc.contributor.author | Scheffel, Rafael Selbach | pt_BR |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-05-04T04:26:28Z | pt_BR |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | pt_BR |
dc.identifier.issn | 1413-8670 | pt_BR |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10183/220413 | pt_BR |
dc.description.abstract | Organizing pneumonia emerges as a late phase complication of COVID-19. Corticosteroids are standard therapy for organizing pneumonia, but the question of whether an approach with high dose corticosteroids would be beneficial for patients with organizing pneumonia secondary to COVID-19 remains to be answered. Herein we report a series of three patients, one male and two females, mean age 58.3 years old, admitted for COVID-19 with severe pulmonary disease requiring ventilatory support. The patients underwent chest computed tomography scans due to maintained hypoxemia, which showed a pattern compatible with organizing pneumonia. The patients were treated with a high dose of corticosteroids (prednisone 1mg/kg PO), showing marked clinical improvement, and decreasing oxygen flow ratio demand. They were discharged after a mean period of 6.3 days of hospitalization. Our report suggests that patients with COVID-19 with organizing pneumonia might benefit from high dose corticosteroids as an adjuvant therapy. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | pt_BR |
dc.language.iso | eng | pt_BR |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases. Salvador. Vol. 25, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 2021), 101541, 4 p. | pt_BR |
dc.rights | Open Access | en |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | en |
dc.subject | Infecções por coronavirus | pt_BR |
dc.subject | Organizing pneumonia | en |
dc.subject | Pneumonia em organização criptogênica | pt_BR |
dc.subject | Corticosteroids | en |
dc.subject | Corticosteróides | pt_BR |
dc.title | Organizing pneumonia : a late phase complication of COVID-19 responding dramatically to corticosteroids | pt_BR |
dc.type | Artigo de periódico | pt_BR |
dc.identifier.nrb | 001124263 | pt_BR |
dc.type.origin | Nacional | pt_BR |
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