Primary rhinovirus pneumonia in which bronchoalveolar lavage fluid yielded human rhinovirus

Takashi Ishiguro; Yuki Yoshida; Yasuhito Kobayashi; Yoshihiko Shimizu; Noboru Takayanagi

doi:10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.100910

Primary rhinovirus pneumonia in which bronchoalveolar lavage fluid yielded human rhinovirus

Respir Med Case Rep. 2019 Jul 19:28:100910. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.100910. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Takashi Ishiguro¹, Yuki Yoshida^{1

2}, Yasuhito Kobayashi³, Yoshihiko Shimizu³, Noboru Takayanagi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Saitama, Japan.
² Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Pathology, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Saitama, Japan.

Abstract

A 27-year-old man presented to our hospital with symptoms of lower respiratory tract infection. This patient showed imaging findings of diffuse bronchiolitis, ground-glass opacities, and consolidations. Antibiotics were not effective, and we performed bronchoalveolar lavage, in which only human rhinovirus infection was detected by multiplex PCR testing.

Keywords: BAL, bronchoalveolar lavage; Bronchiolitis; CT, computed tomography; Corticosteroid; GGOs, ground-glass opacities; HRV, human rhinovirus; Human rhinovirus; Multiplex PCR; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; Viral pneumonia; WBC, white blood cell.

Publication types

Case Reports