Abstract
A 70-year-old Japanese man contracted severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and required oxygen to maintain oxygen saturation (>90%), 5 weeks after onset of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms. Transbronchial lung cryobiopsy revealed pathological features of organizing pneumonia with alveolar epithelial injury, and prednisolone administration led to alleviation of respiratory symptoms and recovery of respiratory function. This case report is the first to demonstrate the use of corticosteroids to successfully treat post-COVID-19 respiratory failure in a patient with biopsy-proven organizing pneumonia. We propose that steroid treatment be considered for patients with persistent respiratory dysfunction as COVID-19 pneumonia sequelae.
Keywords: COVID-19; Cryobiopsy; Organizing pneumonia; Steroid.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, Organizing pneumonia, Cryobiopsy, steroid, 【초록키워드】 coronavirus disease, SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus disease 2019, coronavirus, Corticosteroids, COVID-19 pneumonia, Respiratory failure, Pneumonia, Respiratory function, Infection, lung, oxygen, severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus, Symptoms, Case report, oxygen saturation, Patient, Japanese, respiratory, epithelial, Organizing pneumonia, administration, Injury, biopsy, steroid, respiratory symptoms, Prednisolone, dysfunction, acute respiratory syndrome, acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, respiratory symptom, treat, alleviation, alveolar, feature, steroid treatment, required, maintain, use of corticosteroid, 【제목키워드】 Corticosteroid, treated,