Jafari Ramezan, Cegolon Luca, Dehghanpoor Fatemeh, Javanbakht Mohammad, Tabatabaei Seyed Mohammad Hossein
Department of Radiology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Public Health Department, Local Health Unit N. 2 "Marca Trevigiana", Treviso, Italy.
Radiol Case Rep. 2021 Aug;16(8):2286-2288. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2021.04.079. Epub 2021 May 9.
We report the case of a 37-year-old man who was admitted to Baqiyatallah hospital in Tehran (Iran) for retrosternal pain, fever, fatigue, dyspnoea and severe non-productive cough. The patient was subsequently confirmed as positive for COVID-19 at real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed also the presence of pneumomediastinum. This case highlights the importance of chest CT imaging for COVID-19 pneumonia to detect co-existing conditions as pneumomediastinum.
我们报告了一名37岁男性的病例,该患者因胸骨后疼痛、发热、乏力、呼吸困难和严重干咳入住德黑兰(伊朗)的巴基耶塔拉医院。随后,该患者经实时聚合酶链反应(RT-PCR)检测确诊为COVID-19阳性。胸部计算机断层扫描(CT)还显示存在纵隔气肿。该病例突出了胸部CT成像对COVID-19肺炎检测并存病症如纵隔气肿的重要性。