Late Worsening of COVID-19 Pneumonia: Successful Treatment with Ruxolitinib and Steroid.

We describe the case of a patient hospitalized for the second time in a month due to delayed worsening of lung lesions in COVID-19 infection without bacterial superinfection. He was treated with hydroxychloroquine, IV dexamethasone and ruxolitinib with rapid improvement of respiratory failure; 1 month after the second discharge, maintaining low-dose oral prednisone, lung consolidations were significantly reduced on control CT. LEARNING POINTS: Modulation of immune over-response in late phases of COVID-19 can influence global outcome.Ruxolitinib and IV steroids can reverse the inflammatory process and lung lesions. © EFIM 2020.