Gillespie Megan, Dincher Nathan, Fazio Pamela, Okorji Onyinyechukwu, Finkle Jacob, Can Argun
Department of Emergency Medicine, Jefferson Health - Northeast, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Department of Critical Care, Jefferson Health - Northeast, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Respir Med Case Rep. 2020;31:101232. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101232. Epub 2020 Sep 23.
The first reports of severe acute respiratory symptoms from a novel coronavirus called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December 2019. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic by March 2020. The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in a current global health emergency. Clinical information about the findings of COVID-19 and its associated complications are constantly evolving and becoming more widely available. Providers should be familiar with both typical symptoms and image study results for COVID-19 as well as less commonly reported complications of progressive COVID-19, such as spontaneous pneumomediastinum and spontaneous pneumothorax as highlighted in this case.
2019年12月,中国湖北省武汉市首次报告了一种名为2019冠状病毒病(COVID-19)的新型冠状病毒引起的严重急性呼吸道症状。2020年3月,世界卫生组织宣布COVID-19为全球大流行病。COVID-19疫情已导致当前的全球卫生紧急情况。关于COVID-19的发现及其相关并发症的临床信息在不断演变,并且越来越广泛地可得。医疗服务提供者应熟悉COVID-19的典型症状和影像学检查结果,以及进展性COVID-19较少报道的并发症,如此病例中所强调的自发性纵隔气肿和自发性气胸。