COVID-19 pneumonia with night sweat as the first symptom

DOI: 10.14800/ics.463

Authors

  • Bangyan Zhang a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:128:"Department of Respiration and Critical Care Medicine, Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital,Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, CHINA";}
  • Xianwei Ye
  • Li Ma
  • Li Zhao
  • Yanju Xu
  • Shanshan Rao
  • Xiangyan Zhang
  • Yiling Tang

Abstract

A cluster of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia caused by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) were successively reported in Wuhan, China. The major presentations of patients are fever, fatigue, and dry cough. No cases have been reported with night sweats as the first symptom. This article present a case which diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia with night sweats as the first symptom.  Chest CT showed patches of ground-glass opacity, qRT-PCR of SARS-CoV-2 were positive. After treatment, the patient did not present with night sweats again. A recheck of the chest CT showed that the ground-glass opacity was completely absorbed and the SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid test was negative. This case suggests that night sweats might be the first and major symptom of COVID-19 pneumonia.

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Published

2020-05-05

Issue

Vol. 7 (2020)

Section

Case Report