Surgical Resections of Superinfected Pneumatoceles in a COVID-19 Patient

Emerging studies on radiologic findings in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) report a high incidence of bilateral lung involvement, with ground-glass opacities imaging being the most common pattern on computed tomography. Cystic lesions, such as pneumatoceles, are rare, although they...

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Autores principales: Castiglioni, Massimo, Pelosi, Giuseppe, Meroni, Alberto, Tagliabue, Marta, Uslenghi, Elisabetta, Salaris, Davide, Incarbone, Matteo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Published by Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32603707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.06.008
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author Castiglioni, Massimo
Pelosi, Giuseppe
Meroni, Alberto
Tagliabue, Marta
Uslenghi, Elisabetta
Salaris, Davide
Incarbone, Matteo
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description Emerging studies on radiologic findings in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) report a high incidence of bilateral lung involvement, with ground-glass opacities imaging being the most common pattern on computed tomography. Cystic lesions, such as pneumatoceles, are rare, although they may occur in 10% of cases. Cyst formation may be explained by a focal pulmonary trauma caused by mechanical ventilation or infection-related damage to the alveolar walls leading to pneumatoceles. The superinfection of pneumatoceles is a potential life-threatening condition for which no standardized therapeutic algorithm has been accepted. We report a case of a COVID-19 patient successfully treated by lung resections for infected pneumatoceles.
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spelling pubmed-73208522020-06-29 Surgical Resections of Superinfected Pneumatoceles in a COVID-19 Patient Castiglioni, Massimo Pelosi, Giuseppe Meroni, Alberto Tagliabue, Marta Uslenghi, Elisabetta Salaris, Davide Incarbone, Matteo Ann Thorac Surg Case Report Emerging studies on radiologic findings in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) report a high incidence of bilateral lung involvement, with ground-glass opacities imaging being the most common pattern on computed tomography. Cystic lesions, such as pneumatoceles, are rare, although they may occur in 10% of cases. Cyst formation may be explained by a focal pulmonary trauma caused by mechanical ventilation or infection-related damage to the alveolar walls leading to pneumatoceles. The superinfection of pneumatoceles is a potential life-threatening condition for which no standardized therapeutic algorithm has been accepted. We report a case of a COVID-19 patient successfully treated by lung resections for infected pneumatoceles. by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Published by Elsevier 2021-01 2020-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7320852/ /pubmed/32603707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.06.008 Text en © 2021 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Published by Elsevier. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Incarbone, Matteo
Surgical Resections of Superinfected Pneumatoceles in a COVID-19 Patient
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title_short Surgical Resections of Superinfected Pneumatoceles in a COVID-19 Patient
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32603707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.06.008
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