Case Report: COVID-19–Associated Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax—A Literature Review

COVID-19 is a pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, primarily affecting the respiratory tract. Pulmonary complications of COVID-19 may include acute respiratory distress syndrome and pulmonary embolism. Pneumothorax has been recently reported in association with COVID-19. We report a case of COVID-19 pneum...

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Autores principales: Alhakeem, Ayat, Khan, Muhammad Mohsin, Al Soub, Hussam, Yousaf, Zohaib
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Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7470558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32666917
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0680
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description COVID-19 is a pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, primarily affecting the respiratory tract. Pulmonary complications of COVID-19 may include acute respiratory distress syndrome and pulmonary embolism. Pneumothorax has been recently reported in association with COVID-19. We report a case of COVID-19 pneumonia with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax with no known underlying lung disease or risk factors.
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spelling pubmed-74705582020-09-04 Case Report: COVID-19–Associated Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax—A Literature Review Alhakeem, Ayat Khan, Muhammad Mohsin Al Soub, Hussam Yousaf, Zohaib Am J Trop Med Hyg Articles COVID-19 is a pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, primarily affecting the respiratory tract. Pulmonary complications of COVID-19 may include acute respiratory distress syndrome and pulmonary embolism. Pneumothorax has been recently reported in association with COVID-19. We report a case of COVID-19 pneumonia with bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax with no known underlying lung disease or risk factors. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2020-09 2020-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7470558/ /pubmed/32666917 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0680 Text en © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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