Two Cases of COVID-19 Pneumonia：One Case from the Cruise ship, Diamond Princess, and the Other, A Case of Community Transmission
Year: 2020
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: We encountered two female patients with COVID-19 ―one transferred from the cruise ship, Diamond Princess, docked in the Yokohama port, and the other with community transmission of the infection. The former patient had asymptomatic pneumonia, which subsided spontaneously. The latter patient suffered from severe rapidly worsening pneumonia which necessitated mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, but eventually showed complete resolution of the disease. Although the lung involvement in those two cases at their first evaluation seemed to be equal, they exhibited very different clinical courses ―one showing self-limiting asymptomatic pneumonia and the other showing severe progressive pneumonia.
Source: Kansenshogaku zasshi
Authors: Miku ODA, Takeshi SARAYA, Akinari NODA, Sunao MIKURA, Sho SAKUMA, Tatsuya SHIRAI, Hiromi NAKAJIMA, Teppei SHIMASAKI, Daisuke KURAI, Tomoki KAMIYAMA, Mariko KOTANI, Kiyoshi MORIYAMA, Hiroshi TSUCHIYA, Hidehito ENDO, Hiroshi KUBOTA, Toshinori MINAMISHIMA, Kyoko SOEJIMA, Haruyuki ISHII, Hajime TAKIZAWA
Institution: Kyorin University
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3085146752