Hydropneumothorax With Persistent Air Leak in a Patient With Mild COVID-19 Disease

COVID-19 is a pandemic viral disease with a catastrophic global impact. The severity of COVID-19 symptoms ranges from very mild to severe and affects mainly the respiratory system. Spontaneous pneumothorax and pleural effusion are rarely seen in spontaneously breathing COVID-19 patients. We herein r...

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Autores principales: Pantazopoulos, Ioannis N, Pagonis, Athanasios, Perlepe, Garifallia, Kampolis, Christos F, Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos I
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8919764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35308755
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22150
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author Pantazopoulos, Ioannis N
Pagonis, Athanasios
Perlepe, Garifallia
Kampolis, Christos F
Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos I
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Pagonis, Athanasios
Perlepe, Garifallia
Kampolis, Christos F
Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos I
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description COVID-19 is a pandemic viral disease with a catastrophic global impact. The severity of COVID-19 symptoms ranges from very mild to severe and affects mainly the respiratory system. Spontaneous pneumothorax and pleural effusion are rarely seen in spontaneously breathing COVID-19 patients. We herein report a case of a patient with mild COVID-19 disease presenting to the emergency department with hydropneumothorax. Due to persistent air leak, the patient was managed with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) bullectomy and talc pleurodesis. Clinicians managing these patients should be alert to early diagnose this complication.
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spelling pubmed-89197642022-03-17 Hydropneumothorax With Persistent Air Leak in a Patient With Mild COVID-19 Disease Pantazopoulos, Ioannis N Pagonis, Athanasios Perlepe, Garifallia Kampolis, Christos F Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos I Cureus Infectious Disease COVID-19 is a pandemic viral disease with a catastrophic global impact. The severity of COVID-19 symptoms ranges from very mild to severe and affects mainly the respiratory system. Spontaneous pneumothorax and pleural effusion are rarely seen in spontaneously breathing COVID-19 patients. We herein report a case of a patient with mild COVID-19 disease presenting to the emergency department with hydropneumothorax. Due to persistent air leak, the patient was managed with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) bullectomy and talc pleurodesis. Clinicians managing these patients should be alert to early diagnose this complication. Cureus 2022-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8919764/ /pubmed/35308755 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22150 Text en Copyright © 2022, Pantazopoulos et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Pantazopoulos, Ioannis N
Pagonis, Athanasios
Perlepe, Garifallia
Kampolis, Christos F
Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos I
Hydropneumothorax With Persistent Air Leak in a Patient With Mild COVID-19 Disease
title Hydropneumothorax With Persistent Air Leak in a Patient With Mild COVID-19 Disease
title_full Hydropneumothorax With Persistent Air Leak in a Patient With Mild COVID-19 Disease
title_fullStr Hydropneumothorax With Persistent Air Leak in a Patient With Mild COVID-19 Disease
title_full_unstemmed Hydropneumothorax With Persistent Air Leak in a Patient With Mild COVID-19 Disease
title_short Hydropneumothorax With Persistent Air Leak in a Patient With Mild COVID-19 Disease
title_sort hydropneumothorax with persistent air leak in a patient with mild covid-19 disease
topic Infectious Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8919764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35308755
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22150
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