Pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and subcutaneous emphysema—a rare complication in COVID-19 infection

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic and is posing a serious public health problem for almost all countries. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum, a rare condition, is usually seen in patients with underlying pulmonary pathology, infections, or mechanical ventilation...

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Autores principales: Baburao, Archana, Das, Rinki, Shyamsunder, Shylaja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8319706/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43168-021-00081-y
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author Baburao, Archana
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description BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic and is posing a serious public health problem for almost all countries. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum, a rare condition, is usually seen in patients with underlying pulmonary pathology, infections, or mechanical ventilation. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is a rare complication in COVID-19 pneumonia. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of spontaneous pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and subcutaneous emphysema in a 62-year-old diabetic patient with COVID-19 infection who presented with cough, fever, and breathlessness, which turned to be a fatal complication. CONCLUSION: Pneumomediastinum/subcutaneous emphysema, a not so common complication associated with COVID-19 infection, should be considered as a bad prognostic indicator of worsening disease and hence requires early recognition and careful monitoring of the patient for any possible unfavorable outcome.
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spelling pubmed-83197062021-07-29 Pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and subcutaneous emphysema—a rare complication in COVID-19 infection Baburao, Archana Das, Rinki Shyamsunder, Shylaja Egypt J Bronchol Case Report BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic and is posing a serious public health problem for almost all countries. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum, a rare condition, is usually seen in patients with underlying pulmonary pathology, infections, or mechanical ventilation. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is a rare complication in COVID-19 pneumonia. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of spontaneous pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and subcutaneous emphysema in a 62-year-old diabetic patient with COVID-19 infection who presented with cough, fever, and breathlessness, which turned to be a fatal complication. CONCLUSION: Pneumomediastinum/subcutaneous emphysema, a not so common complication associated with COVID-19 infection, should be considered as a bad prognostic indicator of worsening disease and hence requires early recognition and careful monitoring of the patient for any possible unfavorable outcome. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-07-29 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8319706/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43168-021-00081-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title Pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and subcutaneous emphysema—a rare complication in COVID-19 infection
title_full Pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and subcutaneous emphysema—a rare complication in COVID-19 infection
title_fullStr Pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and subcutaneous emphysema—a rare complication in COVID-19 infection
title_full_unstemmed Pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and subcutaneous emphysema—a rare complication in COVID-19 infection
title_short Pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and subcutaneous emphysema—a rare complication in COVID-19 infection
title_sort pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and subcutaneous emphysema—a rare complication in covid-19 infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8319706/
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