Rajasurya Venkat, Gunasekaran Kulothungan, Damarla Vijay, Kolluru Anuradha
Pulmonary Critical Care, Novant Health, Winston-Salem, USA.
Pulmonary Critical Care, Yale New Haven Health at Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, USA.
Cureus. 2020 Jun 3;12(6):e8432. doi: 10.7759/cureus.8432.
The number of cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been exponentially increasing everyday. It is important to recognize the comorbidities and risk factors associated with this highly contagious and serious disease that has caused thousands of deaths worldwide. Patients with certain conditions like diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and chronic lung diseases have been reported to develop serious complications from COVID-19. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a disease that is more prevalent in the elderly population, the same group that are more susceptible to serious complications from COVID-19. Our literature search did not reveal any review about COVID-19 in IPF patients. We report a patient with IPF who was exposed to COVID-19 from her spouse and died from its complications. This case would help to raise the awareness among IPF patients to follow the necessary precautions to reduce the risk of contracting the disease.
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）的病例数每天都在呈指数级增长。认识到与这种具有高度传染性且严重的疾病相关的合并症和风险因素很重要，该疾病已在全球导致数千人死亡。据报道，患有糖尿病、高血压、心血管疾病和慢性肺病等特定疾病的患者会因COVID-19而出现严重并发症。特发性肺纤维化（IPF）是一种在老年人群中更普遍的疾病，而这一群体也更容易因COVID-19出现严重并发症。我们的文献检索未发现任何关于IPF患者中COVID-19的综述。我们报告了一名IPF患者，她从配偶那里感染了COVID-19并死于其并发症。该病例将有助于提高IPF患者对采取必要预防措施以降低感染该疾病风险的认识。
