• Daijiro Nabeya, Takeshi Kinjo, Gretchen Lynn Parrott, Sawako Nakachi, Tomoko Yamashiro, Nanae Ikemiyagi, Wakako Arakaki, Hiroaki Masuzaki, and Jiro Fujita.
• Department of Infectious, Respiratory, and Digestive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Japan.
• Intern. Med. 2020 Jan 1; 59 (2): 247-252.

AbstractStudies reporting chest images of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-induced lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in an outbreak setting and their relationship to the clinical manifestation are limited. During a genetically confirmed RSV outbreak, eight patients underwent both chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT). Among these, 5 cases had newly appearing abnormalities on CT, although chest X-ray was able to detect abnormalities in only 2 cases (40%). Although bronchial wall thickening was common, other findings and their distribution were variable, even in an outbreak setting. All patients with both a history of anticancer chemotherapy against hematological cancer and lower respiratory symptoms, such as wheezing, sputum, and hypoxemia, had abnormalities on CT, suggesting that these two factors might be important for predicting the existence of LRTI in RSV-infected patients.

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