Affiliation:
1. Department of Special Surgery, Medical Faculty, Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Abstract
Conditions that appear four weeks after infection with SARS-CoV-2 are accepted as “post COVID”. Spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) is one of these late COVID consequences. Our aim is to present a series of cases with this post COVID complication.
Case series. We present four patients with post COVID expression of spontaneous pneumothorax. These patients were non-smokers; never ventilated and had no underlying pre-existing lung diseases and they were treated and recovered from COVID-19 pneumonia in an outpatient setting. Tube thoracostomy, under video-assisted control in three of the patients, was performed as a management of pneumothorax.
Conclusion. With these case series, we highlight SP as an expression of long-term COVID-19 morbidity. The effectiveness of thoracoscopy in the diagnosis and management of such type of secondary late COVID-19 spontaneous pneumothorax was demonstrated.
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