Respir Med Case Rep . Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Complicated by Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum and Pneumothorax

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Respir Med Case Rep


. 2020 Sep 23;31:101232.
doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101232. Online ahead of print.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Complicated by Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum and Pneumothorax


Megan Gillespie ¹ , Nathan Dincher ^{1 2} , Pamela Fazio ³ , Onyinyechukwu Okorji ^{1 3} , Jacob Finkle ¹ , Argun Can ²



Affiliations

• PMID: 32989414
• PMCID: PMC7510447
• DOI: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101232

Abstract

The first reports of severe acute respiratory symptoms from a novel coronavirus called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December 2019.¹ The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic by March 2020.¹ The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in a current global health emergency. Clinical information about the findings of COVID-19 and its associated complications are constantly evolving and becoming more widely available. Providers should be familiar with both typical symptoms and image study results for COVID-19 as well as less commonly reported complications of progressive COVID-19, such as spontaneous pneumomediastinum and spontaneous pneumothorax as highlighted in this case.

Keywords: COVID-19; Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum; Spontaneous Pneumothorax; coronavirus disease.