Use of chest CT-scan images to differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 infection and fat embolism: A clinical case
| Autor: | Pierre Girard, Mario Sanguina, Bachar Zerkly, Penance Agbelele, François Van Maris, Az-Eddine Djebara |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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lcsh:Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine
medicine.medical_specialty Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) fat embolism lcsh:R895-920 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Context (language use) Article 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Intensive care differential diagnosis medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Fat embolism business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Thoracic CT-scan medicine.disease body regions Respiratory failure Embolism Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology Differential diagnosis business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Radiology Case Reports Radiology Case Reports, Vol 15, Iss 10, Pp 2047-2050 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 1930-0433 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.071 |
| Popis: | The authors present the case of a young man victim of a traffic accident during the SARS-CoV-2 confinement, having presented a fracture of the femoral shaft that was soon complicated by respiratory failure with oxygen desaturation. In this pandemic context, Covid-19 RT-PCR tests were carried out but returned negative. The CT images could suggest either a fatty embolism, a SARS-CoV-2 infection or both. The patient's condition improved significantly after going into intensive care and only symptomatic treatment. This case demonstrates the difficulty of differential interpretation of CT images between fatty embolism and SARS-CoV-2 infection. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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