Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Associated with COVID-19 Pneumonia

The first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared in December in Wuhan, before becoming a global pandemic in a few weeks. Several complications of this infection have been reported. However, a spontaneous pneumomediastinum has rarely been described. We report the fourth case of this...

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Autores principales: Mimouni, Hamza, Diyas, Soufiane, Ouachaou, Jamal, Laaribi, Ilyas, Oujidi, Younes, Merbouh, Manal, Bkiyar, Houssam, Housni, Brahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33123202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4969486
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Sumario:The first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared in December in Wuhan, before becoming a global pandemic in a few weeks. Several complications of this infection have been reported. However, a spontaneous pneumomediastinum has rarely been described. We report the fourth case of this extremely rare complication in a 65-year-old male patient with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pneumonia, discovered during his therapeutic management by a CT scan control.

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