ABSTRACT
The world has suffered over the past year under COVID-19. Unfortunately, people still are getting sick from other, also severe, diseases. Although the COVID-19 infection is present, patients need treatment for other life-threatening conditions. We present the case of a 36-year-old patient with severe infective endocarditis with a large abscess of the aortic root, who also is COVID-19 positive. Definitive diagnostics and treatment were avoided due to COVID-19 infection. In the end, emergent surgery was indicated due to acute cardiac decompensation and the development of heart failure symptoms, and the patient recovered uneventfully after surgery.
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Abscess/microbiology , Abscess/surgery , Aortic Diseases/microbiology , Aortic Diseases/surgery , COVID-19/complications , Endocarditis, Bacterial/microbiology , Endocarditis, Bacterial/surgery , Heart Failure/etiology , Heart Failure/therapy , Abscess/diagnostic imaging , Adult , Aortic Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Endocarditis, Bacterial/diagnostic imaging , Heart Failure/diagnostic imaging , Humans , Male , Pleural Effusion/diagnostic imaging , Pleural Effusion/microbiology , Pleural Effusion/surgery , Pneumonia, Viral/complications , Pneumonia, Viral/virology , Respiration, Artificial , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
We report a case of childhood coronavirus disease 2019 infection with pleural effusion complicated by possible secondary Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Fever and pulmonary lesions on computed tomography were the early clinical manifestations, and the patient developed nonproductive cough later. The hydrothorax in this coronavirus disease 2019 case was exudative, showing predominantly mature lymphocytes.