Am J Emerg Med . Spontaneous hemopneumothorax in a patient with COVID-19: A case report

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Am J Emerg Med


. 2020 Jul 30;S0735-6757(20)30660-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.07.065. Online ahead of print.
Spontaneous hemopneumothorax in a patient with COVID-19: A case report


Ann Long ¹ , Felipe Grimaldo ²



Affiliations

• PMID: 32800431
• PMCID: PMC7390746
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.07.065

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is primarily a febrile respiratory illness that was first documented in China in December 2019 and shortly after declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The pathophysiology of the virus is still not completely understood and remains under investigation. Consequently, new symptomatic manifestations and complications of the disease continue to be discovered. Here we present the case of a spontaneous hemopneumothorax resulting in hemorrhagic shock in an adult male with PCR confirmed COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus disease 2019; Spontaneous hemopneumothorax.