Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum: Prognostic Marker in COVID-19 Pneumonia Patients
Received Date: Dec 18, 2023 / Published Date: Dec 19, 2023
Abstract
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) began in late 2019 as a highly transmissible, infectious viral illness caused by the pathogen SARS-CoV-2. The related viral disease Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has been around since early 2003 and presents as mild to moderate Upper Respiratory Illness (URI) progressing to Lower Respiratory Illness (LRI). Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, uncommon presentations of disease are becoming more prevalent. Pneumomediastinum, a rare condition in which air is trapped in the mediastinum, was clinically examined during a case of COVID-19 in a 56-year-old patient.
Keywords: Pneumomediastinum; COVID-19; Lower respiratory illness; Upper respiratory illness
Citation: Mehdizadeh C, Amatya P, Bhakta P, Patel F (2023) Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum: Prognostic Marker in COVID-19 Pneumonia Patients. J Infect Dis Ther 11:577. Doi: 10.4172/2332-0877.1000576
Copyright: © 2023 Mehdizadeh C, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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