Spontaneous Pneumopericardium and Pneumomediastinum in Twelve COVID-19 Patients

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Fecha

2020

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9184

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arbres.2020.09.013

Institución

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Perú)

Resumen

The new COVID-19 has become the largest global epidemic in recent centuries. Mortality is influenced by the different complications that patients develop; nevertheless, some of these remain underreported. In May 2020, we observed the first case of spontaneous pneumomediastinum and pneumopericardium associated with COVID-19 infection in a Peruvian public hospital. By July, a total of 19 cases of pneumomediastinum and only one case of spontaneous pneumopericardium have been reported in COVID-19 patients. Therefore, we decided to search for these two complications through imaging studies...

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