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- Title
COVID-19-Associated Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage: A Case Report.
- Authors
Yüce, Gülbahar Darılmaz; Esendağlı, Dorina; Hekimoğlu, Koray; Tepeoğlu, Merih; Akçay, Müşerref Şule
- Abstract
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage is a syndrome characterized by cough, hemoptysis, diffuse pulmonary infiltrates, anemia, and hypoxemic respiratory distress, and lung infections also play a role in its etiology. The restricted use of bronchoscopy in COVID-19 patients due to the risk of infection has led to the poor recognition of diffuse alveolar hemorrhage in COVID-19. We present here the case of a 35-yearold patient with laboratory, radiological and bronchoscopic evidence of diffuse alveolar hemorrhage who was diagnosed with COVID-19 by bronchial lavage. The restrictions on the use of bronchoscopy during the pandemic due to the high risk of infection has led diagnoses of COVID-19 to be mistakenly excluded in immunosuppressive patients with a negative SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction test, and the under-recognition of conditions such as diffuse alveolar hemorrhage and secondary infection in patients with a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR.
- Subjects
COUGH; HEMORRHAGE; COVID-19; POLYMERASE chain reaction; LUNG infections; BRONCHOALVEOLAR lavage
- Publication
Respiratory Case Reports, 2022, Vol 11, Issue 3, p156
- ISSN
2147-2475
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.5505/respircase.2022.66587