Organizing pneumonia as a pulmonary manifestation of post-COVID syndrome: features of diagnosis and treatment

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Treatment of patients with long-term persistent symptoms after COVID-19 is an urgent problem for clinicians around the world. One of the most significant manifestations of post-COVID-19 syndrome is organizing pneumonia that is usually treat with corticosteroids. The paper presents a clinical case of typical course of post-COVID-19 organizing pneumonia in a patient without previous lung disease. Risk factors, diagnostic methods and treatment options in this group of patients are also discuss.

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Larisa A. Akulkina

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)

Email: anastasia.schepalina@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4307-8882

ассистент каф. внутренних, профессиональных болезней и ревматологии Института клинической медицины им. Н.В. Склифосовского, врач-пульмонолог Клиники ревматологии, внутренних и профессиональных болезней им. Е.М. Тареева Университетской клинической больницы №3

Russian Federation, Moscow

Anastasia A. Shchepalina

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)

Author for correspondence.
Email: anastasia.schepalina@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1826-0519

аспирант каф. внутренних, профессиональных болезней и ревматологии Института клинической медицины им. Н.В. Склифосовского

Russian Federation, Moscow

Aram A. Kitbalian

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University); Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: anastasia.schepalina@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0546-988X

врач-пульмонолог Клиники ревматологии, внутренних и профессиональных болезней им. Е.М. Тареева Университетской клинической больницы №3, аспирант каф. внутренних болезней фак-та фундаментальной медицины

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

Pavel P. Potapov

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University); Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: anastasia.schepalina@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4366-2832

врач-пульмонолог Клиники ревматологии, внутренних и профессиональных болезней им. Е.М. Тареева Университетской клинической больницы №3, аспирант каф. внутренних болезней фак-та фундаментальной медицины

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

Alexey S. Moiseev

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University); Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: anastasia.schepalina@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5296-7622

врач-пульмонолог отд-ния пульмонологии и профпатологии Клиники ревматологии, внутренних и профессиональных болезней им. Е.М. Тареева Университетской клинической больницы №3, аспирант каф. внутренних болезней фак-та фундаментальной медицины

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

Mikhail Yu. Brovko

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)

Email: anastasia.schepalina@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0023-2701

канд. мед. наук, доц. каф. внутренних, профессиональных болезней и ревматологии Института клинической медицины, зам. глав. врача по мед. части, врач-пульмонолог Университетской клинической больницы №3

Russian Federation, Moscow

Victoria I. Sholomova

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)

Email: anastasia.schepalina@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8785-7968

канд. мед. наук, зав. отд-нием пульмонологии и профпатологии Клиники ревматологии, внутренних и профессиональных болезней им. Е.М. Тареева Университетской клинической больницы №3, ассистент каф. внутренних, профессиональных болезней и ревматологии Института клинической медицины им. Н.В. Склифосовского

Russian Federation, Moscow

Sergey V. Moiseev

Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University); Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: anastasia.schepalina@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7232-4640

д-р мед. наук, проф. каф. внутренних профессиональных болезней и ревматологии Института клинической медицины, дир. Клиники ревматологии, внутренних и профессиональных болезней им. Е.М. Тареева Университетской клинической больницы №3, проф. каф. внут- ренних болезней фак-та фундаментальной медицины

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

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2. Fig. 1. Reverse halo symptom in a patient with organizing pneumonia.

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3. Fig. 2. Computer tomography scan of the patient's chest from 04/07/2021.

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4. Fig. 3. Computer tomography scan of the patient's chest from 10/10/2021.

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