Open AccessPulmonary abscess as a complication of COVID-19 associated pneumonia: a clinical case
Author(s) -
Т. И. Каленчиц,
Şevki Kabak,
Sergey.V. Primak,
Н М Шириналиев
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
tuberkulez i bolezni lëgkih/tuberkulëz i bolezni lëgkih
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.226
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2542-1506
pISSN - 2075-1230
DOI - 10.21292/2075-1230-2021-99-12-7-12
Subject(s) - medicine , lung abscess , pneumonia , abscess , empyema , complication , lung , coagulopathy , pleural empyema , viral pneumonia , bacterial pneumonia , pleural cavity , covid-19 , pathology , surgery , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease
The article describes a case of polysegmental destructive viral-bacterial pneumonia complicated with acute pulmonary abscess, pleural empyema, and pneumopleurofibrosis in a 50-year-old female patient infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The first clinical, laboratory and radiological signs of purulent-necrotic inflammation appeared only 20 days after receiving a positive RT-PCR test result with a nasopharyngeal swab. A month later, an emerging abscess in the lower lobe of the right lung was diagnosed. Subsequently, it spontaneously drained into the pleural cavity. Coagulopathy with the formation of microthrombi in small pulmonary vessels is one of the causative factors of lung abscess in patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.