Pneumothorax in a COVID-19 Pneumonia Patient without Underlying Risk Factors

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been recognized as a worldwide pandemic. However, the clinical course of COVID-19 remains poorly characterized. Although some cases of pneumothorax have been reported, they all had pulmonary complications or were managed with mechanical ventilation. We herein...

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Autores principales: Yamaya, Takafumi, Baba, Tomohisa, Hagiwara, Eri, Ikeda, Satoshi, Niwa, Takashi, Kitayama, Takaaki, Murohashi, Kota, Higa, Katsuyuki, Sato, Yozo, Ogura, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7725644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33028774
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5731-20
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Sumario:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been recognized as a worldwide pandemic. However, the clinical course of COVID-19 remains poorly characterized. Although some cases of pneumothorax have been reported, they all had pulmonary complications or were managed with mechanical ventilation. We herein report a case of pneumothorax that developed even though the patient had no pulmonary underlying diseases and had never been managed with mechanical ventilation. In the present case, a lung bulla was found on chest computed tomography during treatment for COVID-19. We concluded that COVID-19 affected the formation of the lung bulla and induced the complication of pneumothorax.

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