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Article Dans Une Revue World Journal of Gastroenterology Année : 2020

COVID-19 in a liver transplant recipient: Could iatrogenic immunosuppression have prevented severe pneumonia? A case report

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Background: Coronavirus disease (COVID) is a new and highly contagious infectious disease caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19 or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). There is limited data regarding the incidence and management of COVID-19 in immunocompromised patients' post-transplantation. In the pre-COVID-19 era, these patients were already at an increased risk of developing opportunistic infections. These often manifested with atypical symptoms. Case summary: We report another case of uneventful COVID-19 pneumonia in a 58-year old male who was 18 mo' post liver transplantation. He received tacrolimus monotherapy since July 2019. The clinical manifestations included only epigastric pain radiating to the right hypochondrium, nausea and vomiting. He had no fevers, cough, shortness of breath, anosmia or dysgeusia even if the chest computed tomography scan revealed an extension of the multiple patchy ground-glass density shadows to the upper lobe of the left lung too. He was hospitalised and received a course of oral chloroquine (200 mg × 3 per day) for a period of 10 d. Interestingly, the COVID 19 infection was uneventful though there were no modifications to his tacrolimus dosing. He was successfully discharged. We performed subsequent follow-up via telemedicine. Conclusion: In light of the current pandemic, it is even more important to identify how the liver recipient's patients present and are managed, especially for immunosuppression treatment.
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hal-03094304 , version 1 (04-01-2021)

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Anna Sessa, Alessandra Mazzola, Chetana Lim, Mohammed Atif, Juliana Pappatella, et al.. COVID-19 in a liver transplant recipient: Could iatrogenic immunosuppression have prevented severe pneumonia? A case report. World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2020, 26 (44), pp.7076-7084. ⟨10.3748/wjg.v26.i44.7076⟩. ⟨hal-03094304⟩
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