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Another possible COVID complication: ‘Punctured lung’ | CIDRAP – CIDRAP
As many as 1 in 100 hospitalized COVID-19 patients may experience a pneumothorax.
As many as 1 in 100 hospitalized COVID-19 patients may experience a pneumothorax, or punctured lung, according to a multicenter observational case series published yesterday in the European Respiratory Journal.
Pneumothorax usually occurs in very tall young men or older patients with serious underlying lung disease. But University of Cambridge researchers identified COVID-19 patients with neither of those traits who had a punctured lung or pneumomediastinum (air or gas leakage from a lung into …
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