- 著者
- Takafumi Yamaya Tomohisa Baba Eri Hagiwara Satoshi Ikeda Takashi Niwa Takaaki Kitayama Kota Murohashi Katsuyuki Higa Yozo Sato Takashi Ogura
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.5731-20, (Released:2020-10-07)
- 参考文献数
- 16
- 被引用文献数
- 17
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been recognized as a worldwide pandemic. However, the clinical course of COVID-19 remains poorly characterized. Although some cases of pneumothorax have been reported, they all had pulmonary complications or were managed with mechanical ventilation. We herein report a case of pneumothorax that developed even though the patient had no pulmonary underlying diseases and had never been managed with mechanical ventilation. In the present case, a lung bulla was found on chest computed tomography during treatment for COVID-19. We concluded that COVID-19 affected the formation of the lung bulla and induced the complication of pneumothorax.