Challenge in diagnosis of COVID-19 in hemodialysis patient : a case report and brief review of the literature

© 2021. Japanese Society of Nephrology..

Diagnosis of COVID-19 in end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients on hemodialysis is challenging,  as the symptoms are often atypical. Herein, we reported a confimed case of COVID-19 in a patient on maintenance hemodialysis. A 38-year-old man with ESKD on regular hemodialysis initially presented with progressive shortness of breath and dry cough, without fever. He had lymphopenia, and chest X-ray suggested pulmonary edema with cardiomegaly and suspected bilateral bronchopneumonia. The patient clinically improved after 7 days of hospitalization, and was subsequently discharged from hospital. Ten days after being discharged, the patient was re-admitted with progressive shortness of breath and dry cough, without fever. SARS-CoV-2 infection was later confirmed by a qualitative RT-PCR test and the diagnosis COVID-19 pneumonia was established. We presented a case of atypical presentation of COVID-19 in an ESKD patient on maintenance hemodialysis with a brief review of the current literature.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

CEN case reports - 10(2021), 3 vom: 16. Aug., Seite 341-347

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Andhika, Rizky [VerfasserIn]
Makmun, Afiatin [VerfasserIn]
Hartantri, Yovita [VerfasserIn]
Wijaya, Indra [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Ian [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Atypical presentation
COVID-19
Case Reports
End-Stage Kidney Disease
Hemodialysis
Journal Article
Review

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Date Completed 16.08.2021

Date Revised 20.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s13730-020-00571-w

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM320158446