Simultaneous spontaneous pneumomediastinum and pneumopericardium in a critically ill patient with COVID-19

Abstract

Case in the paper is of a 24-year-old woman presenting to Baqiyatallah hospital, Tehran, Iran with the occasional fever, weakness, myalgia, fatigue, body aches, and headache who was diagnosed with Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) PCR test. Chest computed tomography (CT) showed spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) and pneumopericardium (SPP). Here, we described SPM, and SPP in a patient with COVID-19, presenting a severe course of the disease.

Keywords

• Pneumomediastinum
• Pneumopericardium
• CT
• Lung
• COVID-19