Pulmonary abscess as a complication of COVID-19 associated pneumonia: a clinical case

The article describes a case of polysegmental destructive viral-bacterial pneumonia complicated with acute pulmonary abscess, pleural empyema, and pneumopleurofibrosis in a 50-year-old female patient infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The first clinical, laboratory and radiological signs of purulen...

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Main Authors: T. I. Kalenchits, S. L. Kabak, S. V. Primak, N. M. Shirinaliev
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: New Terra Publishing House 2022-01-01
Series:Туберкулез и болезни лёгких
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Online Access:https://www.tibl-journal.com/jour/article/view/1592
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Summary:The article describes a case of polysegmental destructive viral-bacterial pneumonia complicated with acute pulmonary abscess, pleural empyema, and pneumopleurofibrosis in a 50-year-old female patient infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The first clinical, laboratory and radiological signs of purulent-necrotic inflammation appeared only 20 days after receiving a positive RT-PCR test result with a nasopharyngeal swab. A month later, an emerging abscess in the lower lobe of the right lung was diagnosed. Subsequently, it spontaneously drained into the pleural cavity.Coagulopathy with the formation of microthrombi in small pulmonary vessels is one of the causative factors of lung abscess in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
ISSN:2075-1230
2542-1506