COVID-19 pneumonia: a tailor-made dress for a Down syndrome patient
We report here a case of coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia in a 40-year-old Caucasian woman with Down syndrome admitted to the Internal Medicine Unit. She was initially treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. When respiratory conditions dramatically worsened, she was not admitted to the...
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doaj-e8ed75089bef4e128c54b2aee47ec28b2021-03-19T06:09:12ZengPAGEPress PublicationsItalian Journal of Medicine1877-93441877-93522021-03-0115110.4081/itjm.2021.1377COVID-19 pneumonia: a tailor-made dress for a Down syndrome patientSimona Uggeri0Fabio Gilioli1Rossella Cosenza2Francesca Nasi3Stefano Moreali4Novella Guicciardi5Internal Medicine Department, Mirandola Hospital, AUSL ModenaInternal Medicine Department, Mirandola Hospital, AUSL ModenaInternal Medicine Department, Mirandola Hospital, AUSL ModenaRadiodiagnostic Department, Mirandola Hospital, AUSL ModenaInternal Medicine Department, Mirandola Hospital, AUSL ModenaRadiodiagnostic Department, Mirandola Hospital, AUSL Modena We report here a case of coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia in a 40-year-old Caucasian woman with Down syndrome admitted to the Internal Medicine Unit. She was initially treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. When respiratory conditions dramatically worsened, she was not admitted to the intensive care unit because of impaired cognitive function. Thus helmet-based continuous positive airway pressure was started. The respiratory conditions progressively improved, reaching spontaneous breathing. https://italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/1377Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2continuous positive airway pressuremorphineDown syndrome. |
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Simona Uggeri Fabio Gilioli Rossella Cosenza Francesca Nasi Stefano Moreali Novella Guicciardi COVID-19 pneumonia: a tailor-made dress for a Down syndrome patient Italian Journal of Medicine Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 continuous positive airway pressure morphine Down syndrome. |
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COVID-19 pneumonia: a tailor-made dress for a Down syndrome patient |
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COVID-19 pneumonia: a tailor-made dress for a Down syndrome patient |
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We report here a case of coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia in a 40-year-old Caucasian woman with Down syndrome admitted to the Internal Medicine Unit. She was initially treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. When respiratory conditions dramatically worsened, she was not admitted to the intensive care unit because of impaired cognitive function. Thus helmet-based continuous positive airway pressure was started. The respiratory conditions progressively improved, reaching spontaneous breathing.
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 continuous positive airway pressure morphine Down syndrome. |
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