• Heart Lung · May 2021

    Spontaneous pneumothorax: An emerging complication of COVID-19 pneumonia.

    • Emmanuel Ekanem, Shreya Podder, Nisha Donthi, Hooman Bakhshi, Joshua Stodghill, Sandeep Khandhar, Amit Mahajan, and Mehul Desai.
    • Department of Cardiology, Inova Health System, Heart and Vascular Institute, 3300 Gallows Rd., Falls Church, VA 22042, United States. Electronic address: emmanuelmd14@gmail.com.
    • Heart Lung. 2021 May 1; 50 (3): 437-440.

    AbstractSpontaneous Pneumothorax in the setting of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has been rarely described and is a potentially lethal complication. We report our institutional experience. Patients with confirmed COVID-19 who were admitted at 5 hospitals within the Inova health system between February 21 and May 2020 were included in the study. We identified 1619 patients, 22 patients (1.4%) developed spontaneous pneumothorax during their hospitalization without evidence of traumatic injury.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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