TY - JOUR
T1 - A Secondary Spontaneous Pneumothorax in a Patient with COVID-19
T2 - Case report
AU - Al Alawi, Abdullah M
AU - Al Naamani, Zakariya
N1 - © Copyright 2021, Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel coronavirus, represents an unprecedented global threat. We report a 78-year-old male patient who presented to the Emergency Department at a tertiary care hospital in Muscat, Oman, in June 2020 with a one-day history of right chest pain and severe breathlessness. The patient was an ex-smoker and known to have idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) with two previous pneumothoraces in the left lung. On presentation, the patient was breathless with an oxygen saturation of 90% on room air. Chest X-ray demonstrated bilateral lung infiltrates and right-sided pneumothorax. The patient tested positive for SARS CoV 2. A chest drain was placed which resulted in good resolution of the pneumothorax. The patient's condition improved remarkably and he was discharged after 17 days of hospitalisation. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this was the first case of pneumothorax reported in a patient infected with COVID-19 who was known to have underlying IPF.
AB - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a novel coronavirus, represents an unprecedented global threat. We report a 78-year-old male patient who presented to the Emergency Department at a tertiary care hospital in Muscat, Oman, in June 2020 with a one-day history of right chest pain and severe breathlessness. The patient was an ex-smoker and known to have idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) with two previous pneumothoraces in the left lung. On presentation, the patient was breathless with an oxygen saturation of 90% on room air. Chest X-ray demonstrated bilateral lung infiltrates and right-sided pneumothorax. The patient tested positive for SARS CoV 2. A chest drain was placed which resulted in good resolution of the pneumothorax. The patient's condition improved remarkably and he was discharged after 17 days of hospitalisation. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this was the first case of pneumothorax reported in a patient infected with COVID-19 who was known to have underlying IPF.
KW - Aged
KW - COVID-19
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Oxygen Saturation
KW - Pneumothorax/diagnosis
KW - RNA, Viral
KW - SARS-CoV-2
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U2 - 10.18295/squmj.4.2021.046
DO - 10.18295/squmj.4.2021.046
M3 - Article
C2 - 34888092
SN - 2075-051X
VL - 21
SP - 660
EP - 663
JO - Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
JF - Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
IS - 4
ER -