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. 2022;29(2):351-354.
doi: 10.5603/CJ.a2022.0002. Epub 2022 Feb 11.

Life-threatening COVID-19 and aspergillosis co-infection in a heart transplant recipient: A cardiologist's nightmare

Renata Wachnicka-Truty  1 , Bartosz Curyłło  2 , Dagmara Wojtowicz  1 , Dorota Kulawiak-Gałąska  3 , Marcin Renke  4 , Katarzyna Sikorska  5 , Marcin Gruchała  2 , Marek Koziński  6
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Life-threatening COVID-19 and aspergillosis co-infection in a heart transplant recipient: A cardiologist's nightmare

Renata Wachnicka-Truty et al. Cardiol J. 2022.
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Evolution of pulmonary lesions. Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis with a cavitary lesion (blue arrows) diagnosed in a transplantation center (upper panel). Upper left: computed tomography (CT) scan (A; axial lung window). Upper right: post contrast CT scan (B; axial mediastinal widow). CT scans performed on admission to a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) unit indicating no evidence of viral pneumonia (middle panel). At this time, the patient already had a positive real-time polymerase chain reaction test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. Middle left: axial lung window (C). Middle right: sagittal lung window (D). CT scans performed in a COVID-19 unit when the patient suffered from acute respiratory failure (lower panel). Subpleural areas of ground-glass opacity indicating COVID-19 pneumonia are present. Lower left: axial lung window (E). Lower right: sagittal lung window (F).
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