COVID-19 with silent hypoxemia

Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2020 Apr 11;140(7). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.20.0299. Print 2020 May 5.
[Article in English, Norwegian]
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Plain language summary

Some COVID-19 patients deteriorate rapidly and seemingly without warning. This is also true for relatively young patients who were previously healthy or who had only minor underlying conditions. We describe one such case, in which a man in his sixties developed rapidly progressive respiratory failure with severe hypoxia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus*
  • COVID-19
  • Coronavirus Infections* / complications
  • Humans
  • Hypoxia* / virology
  • Pandemics*
  • Pneumonia, Viral* / complications
  • SARS-CoV-2