Lung decortication for spontaneous hydropneumothorax in post COVID patients: A case series

Hydropneumothorax is an abnormal collection of air and fluid in the pleural space. As it is a rare complication of COVID-19 pneumonia, we report a case series of spontaneous hydropneumothorax converted to pus collection that was resistant to medical management and treated as decortication and pleure...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Rajnish, Mishra, Namita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9288668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35872925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pcorm.2022.100279
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description Hydropneumothorax is an abnormal collection of air and fluid in the pleural space. As it is a rare complication of COVID-19 pneumonia, we report a case series of spontaneous hydropneumothorax converted to pus collection that was resistant to medical management and treated as decortication and pleurectomy.
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spelling pubmed-92886682022-07-18 Lung decortication for spontaneous hydropneumothorax in post COVID patients: A case series Kumar, Rajnish Mishra, Namita Perioper Care Oper Room Manag Article Hydropneumothorax is an abnormal collection of air and fluid in the pleural space. As it is a rare complication of COVID-19 pneumonia, we report a case series of spontaneous hydropneumothorax converted to pus collection that was resistant to medical management and treated as decortication and pleurectomy. Elsevier Inc. 2022-12 2022-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9288668/ /pubmed/35872925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pcorm.2022.100279 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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