Case Report: COVID-19–Related Pneumothorax—Case Series Highlighting a Significant Complication

COVID-19 is a recent outbreak in China and rapidly spread worldwide. Lung consolidation is the most common radiologic finding of COVID-19 pneumonia. Pneumothorax has been rarely reported as a complication of severe COVID-19 pneumonia. Early recognition and management are detrimental to the outcome....

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Autores principales: Al-Shokri, Shaikha D., Ahmed, Ashraf O. E., Saleh, Ahmed Osman, AbouKamar, Mohamed, Ahmed, Khalid, Mohamed, Mouhand F. H.
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Lenguaje:English
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/PMC7470563/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32662394
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0713
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author Al-Shokri, Shaikha D.
Ahmed, Ashraf O. E.
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AbouKamar, Mohamed
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Mohamed, Mouhand F. H.
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Ahmed, Ashraf O. E.
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description COVID-19 is a recent outbreak in China and rapidly spread worldwide. Lung consolidation is the most common radiologic finding of COVID-19 pneumonia. Pneumothorax has been rarely reported as a complication of severe COVID-19 pneumonia. Early recognition and management are detrimental to the outcome. We here report three cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection complicated by pneumothorax. In addition, we present a brief literature review.
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spelling pubmed-74705632020-09-04 Case Report: COVID-19–Related Pneumothorax—Case Series Highlighting a Significant Complication Al-Shokri, Shaikha D. Ahmed, Ashraf O. E. Saleh, Ahmed Osman AbouKamar, Mohamed Ahmed, Khalid Mohamed, Mouhand F. H. Am J Trop Med Hyg Articles COVID-19 is a recent outbreak in China and rapidly spread worldwide. Lung consolidation is the most common radiologic finding of COVID-19 pneumonia. Pneumothorax has been rarely reported as a complication of severe COVID-19 pneumonia. Early recognition and management are detrimental to the outcome. We here report three cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection complicated by pneumothorax. In addition, we present a brief literature review. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2020-09 2020-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7470563/ /pubmed/32662394 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0713 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7470563/
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