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

• Published in: Korean journal of radiology Vol. 10; no. 6; pp. 531 - 534
• Main Authors: Lee, Choong Wook, Seo, Joon Beom, Song, Jae-Woo, Lee, Hyun Joo, Lee, Jin Seong, Kim, Mi Young, Chae, Eun Jin, Song, Jin Woo, Kim, Won Young
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Korea (South) The Korean Society of Radiology 01-11-2009; 대한영상의학회
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Clinical outcomes; Dyspnea; Emergency medical care; Female; Hemoptysis; Humans; Illnesses; Infections; Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype; Influenza, Human - complications; Influenza, Human - diagnostic imaging; Influenza, Human - drug therapy; Influenza, Human - virology; Laboratories; Lung - diagnostic imaging; Lung - virology; Medical imaging; Medical schools; Medicine; Neutrophils; Older people; Pandemics; Pathogens; Patients; Pneumonia; Pneumonia, Pneumococcal - diagnostic imaging; Pneumonia, Pneumococcal - drug therapy; Radiography, Thoracic; Research centers; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Special Report; Swine flu; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Viral infections; Viruses; Young adults; 방사선과학; Mexico; Lung, CT; Lung, infection; Lung, radiography; Influenza, human
• ISSN: 1229-6929; 2005-8330
• DOI: 10.3348/kjr.2009.10.6.531

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.