Successful outcomes of severe COVID-19 in patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: Diagnostic challenges in immunocompromised hosts

Alexandre E. Malek; Cristina Gutierrez; Victor E. Mulanovich; Joshua Botdorf; Roy F. Chemaly; Shivan Shah; Brandi M. McCall; Judd T. Melancon; Kelly K. McConn; Jovan Borjan; Issam I. Raad; Jan A. Burger; Guillermo Garcia-Manero; Javier A. Adachi

doi:10.4084/MJHID.2020.044

Successful outcomes of severe COVID-19 in patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: Diagnostic challenges in immunocompromised hosts

Alexandre E. Malek, Cristina Gutierrez, Victor E. Mulanovich, Joshua Botdorf, Roy F. Chemaly, Shivan Shah, Brandi M. McCall, Judd T. Melancon, Kelly K. McConn, Jovan Borjan, Issam I. Raad, Jan A. Burger, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, Javier A. Adachi

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The emergence and spread of 2019 novel coronavirus have led to an unprecedented public health crisis around the globe, threatening the lives of millions of people. We report a severe case of COVID-19 in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and describe primarily the clinical presentation and the challenges encountered in the COVID-19 diagnosis, treatment, and specimens sampling pitfalls. This case highlights the importance of a comprehensive diagnostic approach of pneumonia in immunocompromised hosts, including timely and safe bronchoscopy, because of the broad differential diagnosis, more challenging with the current outbreak of COVID-19.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e2020044
Journal	Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2020.044
State	Published - 2020

Keywords

ARDS
COVID-19
Cancer patients
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia

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Hematology
Infectious Diseases

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Malek, A. E., Gutierrez, C., Mulanovich, V. E., Botdorf, J., Chemaly, R. F., Shah, S., McCall, B. M., Melancon, J. T., McConn, K. K., Borjan, J., Raad, I. I., Burger, J. A., Garcia-Manero, G., & Adachi, J. A. (2020). Successful outcomes of severe COVID-19 in patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: Diagnostic challenges in immunocompromised hosts. Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, 12(1), Article e2020044. https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2020.044

Successful outcomes of severe COVID-19 in patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: Diagnostic challenges in immunocompromised hosts. / Malek, Alexandre E.; Gutierrez, Cristina ; Mulanovich, Victor E. et al.
In: Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, Vol. 12, No. 1, e2020044, 2020.

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Malek, AE, Gutierrez, C , Mulanovich, VE , Botdorf, J , Chemaly, RF, Shah, S, McCall, BM, Melancon, JT, McConn, KK, Borjan, J, Raad, II , Burger, JA , Garcia-Manero, G & Adachi, JA 2020, 'Successful outcomes of severe COVID-19 in patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia: Diagnostic challenges in immunocompromised hosts', Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases, vol. 12, no. 1, e2020044. https://doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2020.044

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