Bronchopneumonia due to COVID-19 in a 18 years adolescent

Abstract

The case report of an 18 years teenager with a personal pathological history of chronic essencial hypertension and grade II obesity, who was assisted in José Martí Provincial Pediatric Hospital from Sancti Spiritus due to occasional humid cough, fever and lack of air. Initially pneumonia was diagnosed at the base of the right lung, which became a bronchopneumonia later. During his hospitalization, the result of the polymerase reaction test in real time was received, which was positive in the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. It was possible to stabilize the patient clinical pattern, which had a favorable clinical course; he was discharged after fulfilling the surveillance period.

Keywords

• covid-19
• coronavirus sars-cov-2
• bronconeumonía
• adolescente
• hipertensión arterial
• obesidad.