Post COVID-19 lung fibrosis and pleural effusion in geriatric patient

Rashmi Ramesh Walke, Deepak Kumar Jain

PAMJ. 2021; 40:32. Published 10 Sep 2021 | doi:10.11604/pamj.2021.40.32.30465

An 81-year-old male who has hypertension in the last 15 years coming to our hospital with a chief complaint of severe breathlessness, chest pain with a history of fever spike in the last 20 days. When he underwent real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test, the test comes positive with SARS COVID-19. Routine test high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) showed approximately 75% of the left side and 50% of right lung involvement with CO-RAD 6 and HRCT severity score 20. HRCT showed multiple ill-defined patchy ground-glass opacity with consolidation and septal thickening in the bilateral lung field. There is a finding of fibrotic changes with tractional bronchiectasis in bilateral lung field with minimal pleural effusion.
Corresponding author
Rashmi Ramesh Walke, Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Physiotherapy, Ravi Nair Physiotherapy College, Wardha, Maharashtra, India (rashmi20202@gmail.com)


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