作者
Anthony W Martinelli, Tejas Ingle, Joseph Newman, Iftikhar Nadeem, Karl Jackson, Nicholas D Lane, James Melhorn, Helen E Davies, Anthony J Rostron, Aldrin Adeni, Kevin Conroy, Nick Woznitza, Matthew Matson, Simon E Brill, James Murray, Amar Shah, Revati Naran, Samanjit S Hare, Oliver Collas, Sarah Bigham, Michael Spiro, Margaret M Huang, Beenish Iqbal, Sarah Trenfield, Stephane Ledot, Sujal Desai, Lewis Standing, Judith Babar, Razeen Mahroof, Ian Smith, Kai Lee, Nairi Tchrakian, Stephanie Uys, William Ricketts, Anant RC Patel, Avinash Aujayeb, Maria Kokosi, Alexander JK Wilkinson, Stefan J Marciniak
发表日期
2020/11/1
期刊
European Respiratory Journal
卷号
56
期号
5
出版商
European Respiratory Society
简介
Introduction
Pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum have both been noted to complicate cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) requiring hospital admission. We report the largest case series yet described of patients with both these pathologies (including nonventilated patients).
Methods
Cases were collected retrospectively from UK hospitals with inclusion criteria limited to a diagnosis of COVID-19 and the presence of either pneumothorax or pneumomediastinum. Patients included in the study presented between March and June 2020. Details obtained from the medical record included demographics, radiology, laboratory investigations, clinical management and survival.
Results
71 patients from 16 centres were included in the study, of whom 60 had pneumothoraces (six with pneumomediastinum in addition) and 11 had pneumomediastinum alone. Two of these patients had two distinct episodes of …
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