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Case Reports
. 2020 Jul;95(7):876-878.
doi: 10.1002/ajh.25833. Epub 2020 May 12.

Rapid and severe Covid-19 pneumonia with severe acute chest syndrome in a sickle cell patient successfully treated with tocilizumab

Gonzalo De Luna  1 , Anoosha Habibi  1 , Jean-François Deux  2 , Martin Colard  1 , Anne-Laure Pham Hung d'Alexandry d'Orengiani  3 , Frédéric Schlemmer  4 , Nizar Joher  5 , Christian Kassasseya  6 , Jean Michel Pawlotsky  7 , Clément Ourghanlian  8 , Marc Michel  9 , Armand Mekontso-Dessap  10 , Pablo Bartolucci  1
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Case Reports

Rapid and severe Covid-19 pneumonia with severe acute chest syndrome in a sickle cell patient successfully treated with tocilizumab

Gonzalo De Luna et al. Am J Hematol. 2020 Jul.
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Conflict of interest statement

Bartolucci reports being a consultant for F. Hoffmann‐La Roche. No other potential conflict of interest relevant to this letter was reported.

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CT scan of the chest: Acute chest syndrome and Covid‐19‐induced pneumonia. A, Axial image of chest obtained with a soft‐tissue windows at the level of the lower lobes evidenced areas of consolidation located at the posterior part of the lung (arrows). B, An axial image with the same windowing obtained at the upper part of the lungs showed a right small pleural effusion in the upper part of the great pleural cavity (arrow). C, Axial image located at the same level as A with lung windows evidenced areas of ground‐glass opacities (arrows) in the lower lungs with regards to areas of consolidation, but also in the middle lobe (arrowhead) D, and in the upper right lobe. E, Coronal reconstruction confirmed areas of ground‐glass opacities (arrow) and areas of consolidation with air bronchograms (arrowhead). F, Magnification of a CT image with lung windows acquired at the middle part of the lungs showing a crazy‐paving pattern with ground‐glass opacities and interlobar septal thickening (arrowhead)
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