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Respir Med Case Rep
. 2020;31:101291.
doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101291. Epub 2020 Nov 12.
Case report: Spontaneous pneumothorax in resolved, uncomplicated COVID-19 Pneumonia-A literature review
Jennifer Dennison[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Samuel Carlson[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Shannon Faehling[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Margaret Lieb[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ateeq Mubarik[SUP] 2 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
As the global COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, awareness of uncommon presentations and complications has increased. The actual incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax was found to be 0.66%, or six patients out of 902 who tested positive in recently published literature of 3368 patients (Zantah M, Dominguez Castillo E, Townsend R, Dikengil F, Criner GJ. Pneumothorax in COVID-19 disease-incidence and clinical characteristics. Respir Res. 2020 Sep 16; 21 (1):236.). Of those six patients, only two (0.22%) were not associated with mechanical ventilation barotrauma or comorbid lung disease such as COPD. Here, we present a spontaneous pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum in a patient four days after he had been discharged from hospitalization due to uncomplicated COVID-19 pneumonia.
Keywords: COVID-19; CT; Case report; Complication; Coronavirus; Pneumomediastinum; SARS-Cov-2; Spontaneous pneumothorax.
. 2020;31:101291.
doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101291. Epub 2020 Nov 12.
Case report: Spontaneous pneumothorax in resolved, uncomplicated COVID-19 Pneumonia-A literature review
Jennifer Dennison[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Samuel Carlson[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Shannon Faehling[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Margaret Lieb[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ateeq Mubarik[SUP] 2 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33200068
- PMCID: PMC7658556
- DOI: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101291
Abstract
As the global COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, awareness of uncommon presentations and complications has increased. The actual incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax was found to be 0.66%, or six patients out of 902 who tested positive in recently published literature of 3368 patients (Zantah M, Dominguez Castillo E, Townsend R, Dikengil F, Criner GJ. Pneumothorax in COVID-19 disease-incidence and clinical characteristics. Respir Res. 2020 Sep 16; 21 (1):236.). Of those six patients, only two (0.22%) were not associated with mechanical ventilation barotrauma or comorbid lung disease such as COPD. Here, we present a spontaneous pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum in a patient four days after he had been discharged from hospitalization due to uncomplicated COVID-19 pneumonia.
Keywords: COVID-19; CT; Case report; Complication; Coronavirus; Pneumomediastinum; SARS-Cov-2; Spontaneous pneumothorax.