Organizing pneumonia associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection

• Published in: Radiology case reports Vol. 16; no. 9; pp. 2634 - 2639
• Main Authors: Cortés Colorado, Julián Mauricio, Cardona Ardila, Luisa Fernanda, Aguirre Vásquez, Natalia, Gómez Calderón, Kevin Camilo, Lozano Álvarez, Sandra Lucia, Carrillo Bayona, Jorge Alberto
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 01.09.2021
• ISSN: 1930-0433; 1930-0433
• DOI: 10.1016/j.radcr.2021.06.028

Organizing pneumonia is a nonspecific pulmonary response pattern associated with a variety of clinical contexts including viral infections. The classic radiological manifestations are peribronchovascular/peripheral ground glass opacities or consolidations and may be accompanied by nodules, masses, and interstitial opacities. We describe the case of a 62-year-old male patient with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia and torpid clinical and radiological evolution in whom organizing pneumonia was documented through transbronchial biopsy and imaging findings, with a good response to corticosteroids. The importance of recognizing the development of organizing pneumonia lies in the better prognosis and outcome in those patients who receive treatment with corticosteroids, however, the clinical and radiological suspicion must be confirmed with biopsy because radiological findings associated with bacterial coinfection may overlap.