by Santiago Martínez-Jiménez, MD and Sherief Garrana, MD
AP chest radiograph of 58-yr-old patient with PCR-proven COVID-19 who presented with cough, fever, chills shows ill-defined peripherally predominant opacities bilaterally. Ferritin level: 551 ng/ml and C-reactive protein: 193 mg/l.
Axial CECT of same patient shows peripheral, subpleural, well-demarcated ground-glass opacities interspaced with central areas of spared lung . Preliminary incidental pathologic reports have shown some features suggesting acute fibrinous organizing pneumonia (AFOP).
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