Abstract
bstract: Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is a rare group of disorders
with marked eosinophilia and organ damage usually affecting adults. Any
organ system can be affected, cardiopulmonary and neurologic involvement
being major cause of mortality. Although rarer pediatric cases have been
reported with different clinical and molecular findings compared to
adults. 2019 ended with the emergence of a novel coronavirus,
SARS-Co-V2, leading to a pandemic with a high attack rate causing
COVID-19 disease. Since the beginning of pandemic pulmonary findings
defined for COVID-19 are considered to be pathognomonic hence, chest
tomography is suggested to be superior to polymerase chain reaction
tests in the diagnosis of adult COVID-19 patients. We present a
16-year-old female patient with HES misdiagnosed as COVID-19 during
first peak wave of pandemic depending on chest computed tomography
findings (CT) and treated accordingly.