A Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia Presenting with Plural Effusion: A Case Report

Fereshteh Ghiasvand; SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi; Samaneh Tirgar; Mohammad Reza Salehi; Banafsheh Moradmand-Badie

doi:10.2174/1871526520666201116095440

A Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia Presenting with Plural Effusion: A Case Report

Infect Disord Drug Targets. 2021;21(6):e170721187994. doi: 10.2174/1871526520666201116095440.

Authors

Fereshteh Ghiasvand¹, SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi², Samaneh Tirgar³, Mohammad Reza Salehi³, Banafsheh Moradmand-Badie⁴

Affiliations

¹ Liver Transplantation Research Center, Department of Infectious Diseases, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
² Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS, Iranian Institute for Reduction of High Risk Behaviors, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁴ Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

PMID: 33200715
DOI: 10.2174/1871526520666201116095440

Abstract

Background: In February 2020, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) emerged in Tehran, Iran.

Case presentation: Herein, we reported clinical features, laboratory tests, unusual radiological characteristics and therapeutic course of a patient with initial mild clinical symptoms at presentation with progression to pneumonia and pleural effusion in the emergency unit of a referral hospital.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus disease; case report; corona cases.; pleural effusion; pneumonia.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Iran
Pleural Effusion*
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2