Long COVID presenting with intermittent fever after COVID-19 pneumonia

Yoh Arita; Shohei Yamamoto; Manabu Nagata; Nobuyuki Ogasawara; Shinji Hasegawa

doi:10.1016/j.radcr.2021.05.081

Long COVID presenting with intermittent fever after COVID-19 pneumonia

Radiol Case Rep. 2021 Sep;16(9):2478-2481. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2021.05.081. Epub 2021 Jun 4.

Authors

Yoh Arita¹, Shohei Yamamoto¹, Manabu Nagata², Nobuyuki Ogasawara¹, Shinji Hasegawa¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Japan Community Healthcare Organization (JCHO) Osaka Hospital, 4-2-78, Fukushima, Fukushima-ku, Osaka 553-0003, Japan.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Japan Community Healthcare Organization (JCHO) Osaka Hospital, 4-2-78, Fukushima, Fukushima-ku, Osaka 553-0003, Japan.

Abstract

A 72-year-old man presented to our hospital with a fever. Chest computed tomography showed typical coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. The fever normalized after a few days, and the pneumonia was alleviated. However, the intermittent fever subsequently re-occurred and persisted for over a month. Various tests, including blood tests, culture tests, and image evaluations, were performed. However, the conclusion was that long COVID was the cause of the intermittent fever as an exclusion diagnosis. Many patients suffer from persistent symptoms of COVID-19, but the symptoms and their durations vary. Here we report a case of prolonged fever after COVID-19 pneumonia.

Keywords: COVID-19; Intermittent fever; Long COVID; Pneumonia.

Publication types

Case Reports