Терапевтический архив (May 2022)

Organizing pneumonia as a pulmonary manifestation of post-COVID syndrome: features of diagnosis and treatment

  • Larisa A. Akulkina,
  • Anastasia A. Shchepalina,
  • Aram A. Kitbalian,
  • Pavel P. Potapov,
  • Alexey S. Moiseev,
  • Mikhail Yu. Brovko,
  • Victoria I. Sholomova,
  • Sergey V. Moiseev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26442/00403660.2022.04.201452
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 94, no. 4
pp. 497 – 502

Abstract

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Treatment of patients with long-term persistent symptoms after COVID-19 is an urgent problem for clinicians around the world. One of the most significant manifestations of post-COVID-19 syndrome is organizing pneumonia that is usually treat with corticosteroids. The paper presents a clinical case of typical course of post-COVID-19 organizing pneumonia in a patient without previous lung disease. Risk factors, diagnostic methods and treatment options in this group of patients are also discuss.

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