Dégradation respiratoire et COVID-19… Et si c’était un pneumomédiastin ?

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov2), whose first cases occured in China in November 2019, caused a large global outbreak conducting the World Health Organisation to declare SARS-Cov2 pandemic in March 2020. To pulmonary parenchyma damages, adds up the occurrence of pneumomediastinum. Two cases of spontaneous pneumomediastinum are here described. None of these patients required mechanical ventilation. Although it does not seem to affect the prognosis of the disease, the pneumomediastinum should be investigated before an increasment of dyspnea, the apparition of a chest pain or of a subcutaneous emphysema.