Rapidly progressive organizing pneumonia associated with COVID-19

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Hiroshi Horii1, Keisuke Kamada1, Sho Nakakubo1

  • 1Department of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, North 15 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8638, Japan.

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|November 23, 2020
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Keywords:
COVID-19COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019CorticosteroidsKL-6, Krebs von den Lungen 6Krebs von den lungen 6 (KL-6)OP, organizing pneumoniaOrganizing pneumoniaSARS-CoV-2SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2SOP, secondary organizing pneumoniaSP, surfactant proteinSurfactant protein (SP-D)

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