Key result
Severe Covid-19 pneumonia in a bilateral lung transplant recipient progresses rapidly to fatal multi-organ failure.
Why the study?
The clinical course of Covid-19 in lung transplant recipients remains unknown.
What is the clinical course of severe Covid-19 pneumonia in a bilateral lung transplant recipient?
Case Report (n=1)
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What is the clinical course of severe Covid-19 pneumonia in a bilateral lung transplant recipient?
Severe Covid-19 pneumonia in a bilateral lung transplant recipient can lead to fatal graft injury despite supportive care.
Alerts clinicians to high mortality risk in lung transplant recipients with severe COVID-19; single case leaves optimal strategies open.
The clinical course of Coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in lung transplant recipients remains unknown. We present the fatal clinical course of a 63-year-old double lung transplant recipient with severe Covid-19 pneumonia. She had stable graft function before Covid-19 infection. Despite all the supportive care and treatment graft injury progressed, causing patient death. Therefore, the prognosis in lung transplant recipients with Covid-19 infection is not optimistic.
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Reig et al. (2020) conducted a case report in Covid-19 Pneumonia in Bilateral Lung Transplant Recipient (n=1). Covid-19 infection was evaluated on Clinical outcome. A 63-year-old female bilateral lung transplant recipient with severe Covid-19 pneumonia experienced rapid clinical deterioration and died from multi-organ failure 9 days after admission.
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