SEVERE PNEUMONIA DUE TO COVID-19: EXPERIENCE OF A CASE

Paola Alejandra Pillajo Vinueza; Miguel Angel Alvarado Naranjo; Paul Alejandro Yanez Piedra; Fanny Maribel Cauja Miranda; Maria Belen Paucar Valdivieso

Volume : IX, Issue : VIII, August - 2020

SEVERE PNEUMONIA DUE TO COVID-19: EXPERIENCE OF A CASE

Paola Alejandra Pillajo Vinueza, Miguel Angel Alvarado Naranjo, Paul Alejandro Yanez Piedra, Fanny Maribel Cauja Miranda, Maria Belen Paucar Valdivieso

Abstract :

The cause of Covid-19 is a newly emerging coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, which was first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Its genetic sequencing indicates that it is a closely related betacoronavirus. the cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV). The coronavirus belongs to the Coronaviridae family; Six types of disease have been identified in humans: four of them cause mild respiratory symptoms, while the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) are pandemic, potentially serious lung involvement and death. Covid-19 is currently expanding worldwide and has already become a pandemic.1 In Ecuador, the first case was detected on Feuary 29, 2020; Ecuador currently exceeds 80,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and more than 5,000 deaths. Intensive care units exceed their usual capacity in most Ecuadorian provinces.2 We present the fifteenth patient admitted and treated in our unit and the third patient to be discharged. We have designated this patient, despite not assuming a management that is out of the ordinary, it is a prototype patient of pneumonia acquired in the severe community affected by the new coronavirus. Pneumonia that we have not faced until now and that we are forced to manage en masse. Objective: Describe from a clinical and radiological point of view, how the new coronavirus can end in severe pneumonia, from the presentation of a clinical case, to help quickly identify patients with symptoms compatible with Covid-19 and avoid a poor prognosis. Methodology This is a systematic review of severe pneumonia due to Covid-19 infection, emphasizing its clinical and radiological characteristics.