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Editor, Senior Moderator
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[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Nathan Dincher[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Pamela Fazio[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Onyinyechukwu Okorji[SUP] 1 3 [/SUP], Jacob Finkle[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Argun Can[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
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.[SUP]1[/SUP] The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic by March 2020.[SUP]1[/SUP] 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.
. 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[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Nathan Dincher[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Pamela Fazio[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Onyinyechukwu Okorji[SUP] 1 3 [/SUP], Jacob Finkle[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Argun Can[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
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.[SUP]1[/SUP] The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic by March 2020.[SUP]1[/SUP] 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.