СOURSE FEATURES OF A NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTION IN A COMORBID PATIENT

ABSTRACT

The appearance of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in 2020 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus set tasks for doctors of various specialties to quickly diagnose, treat, and develop effective rehabilitation measures. The medical community's knowledge about the respiratory tract lesions pathogenesis course in COVID-19 is going to improve, but the key accents placement in understanding this pathology course continues today. Suspected SARS-CoV-2 virus reference points are as follows vascular endothelial dysfunction, coagulopathy, thrombosis resembling the antiphospholipid syndrome. Treatment is carried out in accordance with general recommendations aimed at the average patient despite the higher secondary infectious complications risk in patients suffering from cancer and a high severe COVID-19 risk. A successful inpatient treatment experience in patients suffering from comorbid pulmonary pathology and a new coronavirus infection is demonstrated on a separate example. The treatment duration and the complexity of selecting a rehabilitation measures course were due to the patient's history of central squamous cell lung cancer, surgical intervention (bilobectomy), radio- and chemotherapy, as well as complications in the form of pulmonary embolism. The concomitant respiratory pathology was differentiated (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) during examination and treatment and basic therapy was selected, which made the medical rehabilitation stage more effective. The patient's condition required a more careful selection of combined anti-inflammatory, broncholytic, mucolytic, and antibacterial therapy than in patients without concomitant pathology. Treatment and a complex of rehabilitation measures, normalization of respiratory function, compensation for concomitant bronchopulmonary pathology was possible to be achieves as a result of the diagnosis of concomitant bronchopulmonary pathology. Careful diagnostic search and optimal treatment of all somatic pathology are important factors in the selection of adequate therapy for elderly patients suffering from coronavirus infection with comorbid pulmonary pathology. All rights reserved © Eco-Vector, 2022.