Volume 26, Issue 121, March 2022

Spontaneous Pneumothorax, a rare complication of COVID-19: A case report

Hakami Abdulrahman^1♦, Tawfeeq Altherwi²

^1,2Jazan university, college of medicine, Department of Medicine, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Abdulrahman Hakami, Jazan University, college of medicine, Department of Medicine, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Coronavirus disease 2019 has been a pandemic outbreak since December 2019. It was notified in Wuhan, China in in December 2019, has rapidly swept around the world, causing a great threat to global health. COVID-19 result in systemic inflammation and lead to multiorgan dysfunction and complications. These complications involved pulmonary and cardiovascular system that result in in significant morbidity and mortality. A rare pulmonary complication of COVID-19 is the development of a spontaneous pneumothorax that detected less commonly in affected patients. Her, we treated a case of COVID 19 with a large spontaneous pneumothorax in middle-aged man with chest decompression by intercostal tube, the pneumothorax resolved and the patient discharged home with good outcome.

Keywords: Spontaneous pneumothorax, Chest radiograph; Computed tomography; Coronavirus; COVID-19 pneumonia

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms90e1901

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i121/ms90e1901

Published: 06 March 2022