Spontaneous pneumothorax: An emerging complication of COVID-19 pneumonia

Spontaneous Pneumothorax in the setting of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has been rarely described and is a potentially lethal complication. We report our institutional experience. Patients with confirmed COVID-19 who were admitted at 5 hospitals within the Inova health system between February 2...

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Autores principales: Ekanem, Emmanuel, Podder, Shreya, Donthi, Nisha, Bakhshi, Hooman, Stodghill, Joshua, Khandhar, Sandeep, Mahajan, Amit, Desai, Mehul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7846243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33631467
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hrtlng.2021.01.020
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Sumario:Spontaneous Pneumothorax in the setting of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has been rarely described and is a potentially lethal complication. We report our institutional experience. Patients with confirmed COVID-19 who were admitted at 5 hospitals within the Inova health system between February 21 and May 2020 were included in the study. We identified 1619 patients, 22 patients (1.4%) developed spontaneous pneumothorax during their hospitalization without evidence of traumatic injury.

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