einstein (São Paulo). 27/Apr/2020;18:eAI5742.
The halo sign as a chest computed tomography finding of COVID-19
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2020AI5742
A 36-year-old male patient from New Jersey, USA, with obesity, hypertension and diabetes, was admitted to our service presenting excessive sweating, tachypnea, tachycardia, fever (38.6°C), and blood oxygen level of 90%. The patient reported that 5 days before he had sought medical care in the United States for dry cough, nasal congestion, malaise and fever. Chest radiography () and computed tomography (CT) () at admission showed multiple small nodular opacities and diffuse consolidations in both lungs, with central and peripheral distribution as well as with ground-glass halo, which corresponds to the halo sign.
The reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay for coronavirus identified the viral RNA in the patient-collected nasopharyngeal swab.
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