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Differential diagnoses of acute ground-glass opacity in chest computed tomograp...
Matos,Marina Justi Rosa de; Rosa,Marcela Emer Egypto; Brito,Vanessa Mizubuti; Amaral,Lucas Tadashi Wada; Beraldo,Gabriel LaverdiABSTRACT Ground-glass opacity is a very frequent and unspecified finding in chest computed tomography. Therefore, it admits a wide range of differential diagnoses in the acute context, from viral pneumonias such as influenza virus, coronavirus disease 2019 and cytomegalovirus and even non-infectious lesions, such as vaping, pulmonary infarction, alveolar hemorrhage and pulmonary edema. For this diagnostic diffe...
COVID-19 findings identified in chest computed tomography: a pictorial essay
Rosa,Marcela Emer Egypto; Matos,Marina Justi Rosa de; Furtado,Renata Silveira Olimpio de Paula; Brito,Vanessa Mizubuti; Amaral,Lucas Tadashi WadaABSTRACT The disease caused by the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, has been recently described and became a health issue worldwide. Its diagnosis of certainty is given by polymerase chain reaction. High-resolution computed tomography, however, is useful in the current context of pandemic, especially for the most severe cases, in assessing disease extent, possible differential diagnoses and searching complications...
COVID-19 myocarditis: a case report
Yokoo,Patrícia; Fonseca,Eduardo Kaiser Ururahy Nunes; Sasdelli Neto,Roberto; Ishikawa,Walther Yoshiharu; Silva,Murilo Marques Almeida; Yanata,ElaineABSTRACT A male patient with flu-like symptoms and tomography and laboratory diagnosis of severe acute respiratory syndrome. He developed acute cardiac dysfunction during admission and was submitted to a cardiac magnetic resonance imaging examination, which confirmed acute myocarditis, indicating cardiac involvement by coronavirus disease 2019. A review and discussion about coronavirus disease 2019-related card...