Department of Thoracic Surgery.
Department of Anesthesiology. Karadeniz Technical University Medical School, Trabzon, Turkey.
Cir Cir. 2022;90(3):402-405. doi: 10.24875/CIRU.21000746.
A 48-year-old female patient with complaints of shortness of breath and coughing had bilateral diffuse infiltration in her chest X-ray and diffuse ground-glass opacities in her chest computed tomography. Despite her polymerase chain reaction test being negative, she was treated 10 days for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia due to her radiological images and clinical hypoxia. As there was no improvement in her symptoms, she was administered fiberoptic bronchoscopy and she was diagnosed with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP). PAP can be confused with COVID-19 pneumonia due to their similar clinical and radiological appearances.
一位 48 岁女性患者因呼吸急促和咳嗽而就诊，其胸部 X 光片显示双侧弥漫性浸润，胸部计算机断层扫描显示弥漫性磨玻璃样混浊。尽管她的聚合酶链反应检测呈阴性，但由于她的影像学图像和临床低氧血症，她被治疗了 10 天的 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）肺炎。由于她的症状没有改善，对她进行了纤维支气管镜检查，诊断为肺泡蛋白沉积症（PAP）。由于它们的临床和影像学表现相似，PAP 可能与 COVID-19 肺炎混淆。
