Emberey, Jonathan and Velala, S Srinath and Marshall, Ben and Hassan, Adil and Meghjee, Salim PL and Malik, M Jamil and Hussain, Muhammad (2021) Acute Epiglottitis Due to COVID-19 Infection. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 8 (3). pp. 1-3. ISSN ISSN: 2284-2594
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Abstract
A 53-year-old man presented acutely to the Accident and Emergency department with a 2-day history of progressive odynophagia and shortness of breath. The patient had stridor at rest and acute epiglottitis was suspected. The patient was transferred urgently to theatre for intubation but due to a severely oedematous airway, this was unsuccessful and emergency tracheotomy was performed by the ENT team. Throughout admission the only positive microbiological sample was a nasopharyngeal swab for SARS-CoV-2 infection. In the absence of other positive microbiology, it is highly likely that COVID-19 was the aetiological cause of acute epiglottitis in this instance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Epiglottitis, COVID-19 |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Dec 2021 14:56 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Dec 2021 14:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/21213 |
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