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- Impact Factor: 0.285**
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- ISSN: 2638-4558
- DOI: 10.25107/2638-4558
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Abstract
Citation: Clin Case Rep Int. 2021;5(1):1233.DOI: 10.25107/2638-4558.1233
Dyspnea is a Conundrum in the COVID-19 Era - A Case Report
Nithya Rajendran, Ruth Cusack, Keneilwe Malomo, Joseph Browne and Ontefetse Ntlholang
Department of General Medicine, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
*Correspondance to: Nithya Rajendran
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Abstract:
Background: In the COVID-19 era, a simple dyspnea can raise diagnostic uncertainties especially when presented with patients with underlying interstitial lung disease or congestive cardiac failure which can both present clinically and radiologically similar to COVID-19 pneumonitis. Moreover, such co-morbidities have an increasingly poorer outcome when associated with SARS-CoV-2
infection.
Case Report: An 85-year-old lady presented with dyspnea a week after being treating for chest infection by general practitioner. Chest X-rays and CTPA showed bilateral airspace opacifications with organizing pattern and SARS-CoV-2 was not detected on three PCR swabs. She was managed with diuretics, antimicrobials, steroids, oxygen and non-invasive ventilation.
Conclusion: An acute exacerbation of ILD, decompensated CCF and CT findings of an organizing pneumonia pattern, raises the possibility of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection being the trigger for the patient’s presentation. Nasal swabs only detect viral shedding, but not the pending cytokine storm thereby posing diagnostical difficulties.
Keywords:
Dyspnea; SARS-CoV-2; Interstitial lung disease; CCF; COVID pneumonia; Covid-19; Covid; Corona Virus; Coronavirus disease 2019
Cite the Article:
Rajendran N, Cusack R, Malomo K, Browne J, Ntlholang O. Dyspnea is a Conundrum in the COVID-19 Era - A
Case Report. Clin Case Rep Int. 2021;5:1233..