A case of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis misdiagnosed as COVID-19 pneumonia

Mustafa Sisman; Sami Karapolat; Omer Topaloglu; Ali Akdogan; Atila Turkyilmaz

doi:10.24875/CIRU.21000746

Cirugía y Cirujanos (Jul 2022)

A case of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis misdiagnosed as COVID-19 pneumonia

Mustafa Sisman,
Sami Karapolat,
Omer Topaloglu,
Ali Akdogan,
Atila Turkyilmaz

Affiliations

Mustafa Sisman: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Karadeniz Technical University Medical School, Trabzon, Turkey
Sami Karapolat: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Karadeniz Technical University Medical School, Trabzon, Turkey
Omer Topaloglu: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Karadeniz Technical University Medical School, Trabzon, Turkey
Ali Akdogan: Department of Anesthesiology. Karadeniz Technical University Medical School, Trabzon, Turkey
Atila Turkyilmaz: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Karadeniz Technical University Medical School, Trabzon, Turkey

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24875/CIRU.21000746
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 90, no. 3

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A 48-year-old female patient with complaints of shortness of breath and coughing had bilateral diffuse infiltration in her chest X-ray and diffuse ground-glass opacities in her chest computed tomography. Despite her polymerase chain reaction test being negative, she was treated 10 days for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia due to her radiological images and clinical hypoxia. As there was no improvement in her symptoms, she was administered fiberoptic bronchoscopy and she was diagnosed with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP). PAP can be confused with COVID-19 pneumonia due to their similar clinical and radiological appearances.

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. Coronavirus disease 2019. Bronchoalveolar lavage.

Published in Cirugía y Cirujanos

ISSN: 0009-7411 (Print); 2444-054X (Online)
Publisher: Permanyer
Country of publisher: Spain
LCC subjects: Medicine: Surgery
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