PMC9969748_01
A) Chronological representation of the respiratory course and respiratory exams performed. ARDS: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, BAL: bronchoalveolar lavage, CT: computed tomography, RT-PCR: reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction for SARS-CoV-2, serology: specific-SARS-CoV-2 serology, VV-ECMO: veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, WLL: whole lung lavage. Violet legend: analyses realized retrospectively (after COVID-19 diagnosis). B) First chest computed tomography (day-1). C) Second chest computed tomography (day-28). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)
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He was hospitalized in the respiratory department to carry out an etiological assessment of this dyspnea (Fig. 1A). Typical crazy-paving appearance was found on chest computed-tomography (CT) (Fig. 1B). On day-28 a new chest CT was performed (Fig. 1C), showing the persistence of diffuse ground-glass opacities and the appearance of parenchyma consolidation in the basal left lung.