Pulmonary complication of novel influenza A (H1N1) infection: imaging features in two patients

Korean J Radiol. 2009 Nov-Dec;10(6):531-4. doi: 10.3348/kjr.2009.10.6.531.

Abstract

Novel influenza A (H1N1) virus is the pathogen of recent global outbreaks of febrile respiratory infection. We herein report the imaging findings of pulmonary complication in two patients with novel influenza A (H1N1) infection. The first patient without secondary infection showed the ill-defined ground-glass opacity nodules and patch areas of ground-glass opacities. The second patient with secondary pneumococcal pneumonia showed areas of lobar consolidation in the right middle lobe and left lower lobe and ground-glass opacities.

Keywords: Influenza, human; Lung, CT; Lung, infection; Lung, radiography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype*
  • Influenza, Human / complications
  • Influenza, Human / diagnostic imaging*
  • Influenza, Human / drug therapy
  • Influenza, Human / virology
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung / virology
  • Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / drug therapy
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*