Tension pneumothorax in patient recovered from infection by SARS Cov 2
Neumotórax a tensión en paciente recuperado de infección por Sars Cov 2
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Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 with the increase in cases of multilobar pneumonia due to coronavirus disease COVID-19, cases of pneumothorax have been reported more frequently in the world literature, but to date, none of a patient has been reported convalescing at home due to the infection, which debuted with tension pneumothorax in the emergency room.
This is a 48-year-old patient, who overcomes the COVID-19 infection and is discharged, leaving with structural and functional sequelae, the most important, dependence on low-flow oxygen. He attends the emergency department with progressive dyspnea and a tension pneumothorax is diagnosed, requiring closed thoracostomy, reoperation for a new in-hospital pneumothorax, and is discharged 18 days later.
In conclusion, coronavirus disease has a wide range of presentations and in our portfolio of differential diagnoses in the emergency department, we must add this cause of dyspnea in patients with active and convalescent infections of the disease, whose management is strictly surgical.
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