Open AccessPatient Clinical Condition in Relation to Hypoxemia and Chest X-Ray Changes in Novel CoV-19 Pneumonia: a Case Report
Author(s) -
Mirza Kovačević
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta clinica croatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.274
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1333-9451
pISSN - 0353-9466
DOI - 10.20471/acc.2021.60.04.26
Subject(s) - hypoxemia , medicine , pneumonia , respiratory system , arterial blood , cardiology , intensive care medicine , radiology
Persistent changes on chest x-ray and hypoxemia in arterial blood gas analyses have been described in several cases in novel CoV-19 virus (nCoV-19) patients. These changes are usually not expressed to a large extent. Our goal was not only to present a patient with comorbidities in whom residual pulmonary infiltrates remained with consequent hypoxemia after extubation, but also to show that these changes do not always correlate with the clinical condition. In summary, despite chest x-ray changes and hypoxemia, with appropriate respiratory physiotherapy, the patient had a satisfactory clinical status.