Typical Covid-19 case with primary pneumomediastinum in a 37 year old male

Ramezan Jafari, PhD; Luca Cegolon, MD, MSc, PhD; Fatemeh Dehghanpoor, PhD; Mohammad Javanbakht, PhD; Seyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaei, PhD

Radiology Case Reports (Aug 2021)

Typical Covid-19 case with primary pneumomediastinum in a 37 year old male

Ramezan Jafari, PhD,
Luca Cegolon, MD, MSc, PhD,
Fatemeh Dehghanpoor, PhD,
Mohammad Javanbakht, PhD,
Seyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaei, PhD

Affiliations

Ramezan Jafari, PhD: Department of Radiology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Luca Cegolon, MD, MSc, PhD: Public Health Department, Local Health Unit N. 2 ''Marca Trevigiana'', Treviso, Italy
Fatemeh Dehghanpoor, PhD: Department of Radiology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Javanbakht, PhD: Nephrology and Urology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Corresponding authors: M.Javanbakht
Seyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaei, PhD: Department of Orthopedics, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 16, no. 8
pp. 2286 – 2288

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We report the case of a 37-year-old man who was admitted to Baqiyatallah hospital in Tehran (Iran) for retrosternal pain, fever, fatigue, dyspnoea and severe non-productive cough. The patient was subsequently confirmed as positive for COVID-19 at real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed also the presence of pneumomediastinum. This case highlights the importance of chest CT imaging for COVID-19 pneumonia to detect co-existing conditions as pneumomediastinum.

Published in Radiology Case Reports

ISSN: 1930-0433 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General): Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine
Website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/radiology-case-reports

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