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Published on: December 19, 2020
Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Patients of COVID 19 Pneumonia
Yash Kedia1, N T Awad2, Jairaj Nair3
1Resident Doctor, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra; * Corresponding Author.
Abstract:
COVID 19 pandemic has put a massive strain on healthcare all over the world. Every day new data is getting released and various complications are being reported in patients of COVID 19 Pneumonia. One such complication is pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum. Both these conditions can lead to an increase in mortality and morbidity in patients with COVID 19 pneumonia. We studied 476 patients of COVID 19 pneumonia at our hospital, out of which 18 (3.78%) had developed pneumothorax and/or pneumomediastinum. While most of these patients were on some form of positive pressure ventilation (invasive/non-invasive), some of them had a HRCT Chest suggestive of either air trapping and/or cyst formation. Three patients had developed bilateral pneumothorax while on non-invasive ventilator. Nine of the 18 patients expired and nine were discharged.Through this article, we would like to emphasize that an acute deterioration in hypoxemia in a COVID-19 patient could indicate a pneumothorax. Pneumothorax as well as pulmonary thromboembolism are reported complications in COVID-19 and clinician vigilance is required during assessment of patients, as both share the common symptom of breathlessness and therefore can mimic each other.
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