Ground Glass Opacities Observed in a 26-Year-Old Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Rule-Out Patient With a History of Vape Use

Vivek N Patel; Michael Rouse; Christopher Brown; Sahil Pandya

doi:10.7759/cureus.10302

Ground Glass Opacities Observed in a 26-Year-Old Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Rule-Out Patient With a History of Vape Use

Cureus. 2020 Sep 7;12(9):e10302. doi: 10.7759/cureus.10302.

Authors

Vivek N Patel¹, Michael Rouse¹, Christopher Brown¹, Sahil Pandya²

Affiliations

¹ Internal Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA.
² Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA.

Abstract

Pulmonary imaging findings in e-cigarette and vaping use associated lung injury (EVALI) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may be similar. One such pulmonary radiographic finding is ground glass opacities (GGOs). These GGOs present a wide differential that is narrowed down through diagnostic testing, deliberation of past medical history as well as medication use, and social history. This case presents GGOs observed in a COVID rule-out admission clinically correlated with EVALI.

Keywords: covid; e-cigarette and vaping product use associated lung injury (evali); ground glass opacity; ground-glass opacity.

Publication types

Case Reports