Case report: Suspected organizing pneumonia secondary to severe respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia in an elderly patient
Min Feng,
Jie Zhang,
Xiangrui Li
et al.
Abstract:Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) usually causes acute respiratory tract infection in infants. In recent years, it has gradually become an important pathogen of lower respiratory tract infection in elderly people with an underlying disease. However, at present, the treatment of severe RSV pneumonia in adults is unclear, and organizing pneumonia (OP) after severe RSV infection has rarely been reported. We reported a 76-year-old man with multiple chronic heart and lung diseases who presented with fever, cough an… Show more
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