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Pneumomediastinum in COVID Era: A case series

Published:2023-04 Issue:2 Volume:11 Page:92-99
ISSN:2320-8775
Container-title:The Journal of Association of Chest Physicians
language:en
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Author:

Dutta Kashish¹,Aggarwal Deepak²,Sodhi Mandeep³,Jaggi Surabhi¹,Saini Varinder¹⁴

Affiliation:

1. Assistant professor, Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases,Government Medical College and hospital, Chandigarh

2. Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, GMCH, Chandigarh

3. Assistant Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, GMCH, Chandigarh

4. Professor and Head, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, GMCH, Chandigarh

Abstract

Subcutaneous emphysema and pneumomediastinum are uncommon complications seen in COVID −19 patients that tend to worsen their prognosis. Being a new disease, management of this new complication of this disease is not well defined in the literature. We present a case series of six patients of probable/confirmed COVID who developed pneumomediastinum at varied time intervals from the onset of symptoms. Timely recognition and management led to recovery in all of them. Management done in this case series may help in providing data to formulate treatment guidelines for this potentially fatal disease.

Publisher

Medknow

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