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Rare Complication of Pneumomediastinum and Pneumopericardium in a Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a recently discovered coronavirus which has caused a global outbreak of severe pneumonia with complications leading to hypoxic respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), cytokine storm, disseminated intravascular c...

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Autores principales: Singh, Anshika, Bass, Jessica, Lindner, David H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33204564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8845256
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description Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a recently discovered coronavirus which has caused a global outbreak of severe pneumonia with complications leading to hypoxic respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), cytokine storm, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and even gastrointestinal symptoms. While ground-glass opacity (GGO) is a typical radiographic finding associated most frequently with COVID-19 pneumonia, other less commonly noted atypical radiographic lung features include isolated lobar or segmental consolidation without GGO, discrete small nodules (centrilobular, “tree-in-bud”), lung cavitation, and smooth interlobular septal thickening with pleural effusion. Pneumomediastinum in COVID-19 patients has rarely been reported. A finding of pneumopericardium is unusual too. This report discusses the case of a young male with COVID-19 pneumonia who was found to have both these features on computed tomographic (CT) scans of his chest on presentation.
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spelling pubmed-76526322020-11-16 Rare Complication of Pneumomediastinum and Pneumopericardium in a Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia Singh, Anshika Bass, Jessica Lindner, David H. Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a recently discovered coronavirus which has caused a global outbreak of severe pneumonia with complications leading to hypoxic respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), cytokine storm, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and even gastrointestinal symptoms. While ground-glass opacity (GGO) is a typical radiographic finding associated most frequently with COVID-19 pneumonia, other less commonly noted atypical radiographic lung features include isolated lobar or segmental consolidation without GGO, discrete small nodules (centrilobular, “tree-in-bud”), lung cavitation, and smooth interlobular septal thickening with pleural effusion. Pneumomediastinum in COVID-19 patients has rarely been reported. A finding of pneumopericardium is unusual too. This report discusses the case of a young male with COVID-19 pneumonia who was found to have both these features on computed tomographic (CT) scans of his chest on presentation. Hindawi 2020-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7652632/ /pubmed/33204564 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8845256 Text en Copyright © 2020 Anshika Singh et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Rare Complication of Pneumomediastinum and Pneumopericardium in a Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia
title_full Rare Complication of Pneumomediastinum and Pneumopericardium in a Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia
title_fullStr Rare Complication of Pneumomediastinum and Pneumopericardium in a Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia
title_full_unstemmed Rare Complication of Pneumomediastinum and Pneumopericardium in a Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia
title_short Rare Complication of Pneumomediastinum and Pneumopericardium in a Patient with COVID-19 Pneumonia
title_sort rare complication of pneumomediastinum and pneumopericardium in a patient with covid-19 pneumonia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7652632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33204564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8845256
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