Puzzling Cases in Pulmonary Medicine

Medical fraternity has not witnessed such a worst scenario in recent times and is fighting hard to contain the pandemic COVID-19 infection. It has affected all countries and all races across the globe. The mortality and morbidity have been so much that it is enough to make medical science helpless. The progression of infection and the way it affects multiple organs in the body are unique and not seen in any other disease so far described. In this background we thought of sharing our experience in treating COVID – 19 cases through the pandemic. Clinical course and radiological findings are described in detail and management aspects have been covered briefly. All cases discussed in this book were seen and managed by the authors themselves. Special care has been taken to highlight unique features in the X-ray and CT scan of these patients which will enable the clinician to identify various pathological changes in the lung. These imaging finding are unique for the pathognomonic involvement of COVID – 19 in the lung.