Atypical pneumonia: Is viral pneumonia ‘Rare‘ or ‘Rarely diagnosed‘? - Case report and review of literature

Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2018

Chopra M, Agarwal M

A young healthy male, with no known comorbidities, presented with progressive fulminant pneumonia. The patient succumbed

to death without a conclusive antemortem diagnosis despite extensive investigations. The post mortem revealed features of viral

cytopathic changes with extensive hyaline memane formation in lungs. However, molecular tests performed to establish

definitive diagnosis, yielded negative results for all the organisms tested. The aim is to present a case of Viral pneumonia a

diagnosis rarely talked about in scenario of developing countries.