MONITORING OF A SEVERE COVID-19 PATIENT WITH PNEUMOTHORAX COMPLICATIONS THROUGH RADIOLOGICAL AND LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS

Abstract

Monitoring and treatment of severely ill patients with the coronavirus disease who are on mechanical ventilation due to the severity of the disease with the development of many complications remains a challenge. One of the rare complications, but increasingly related to patients with Covid-19 who are on ventilators, is pneumothorax. The increased incidence of pneumothorax in Covid-19 patients on mechanical ventilation may be due to a combination of infection-induced parenchymal injury and inflammatory response with additional positive pressure ventilation. According to the available data, reported cases of pneumothorax as a complication of the Covid-19 disease in severe patients without a fatal outcome are very rare. In our study, we report a case of a severe Covid-19 patient with a pneumothorax complication through radiological and laboratory diagnostics, which resulted in a positive outcome.

Keywords: Covid-19, mechanical ventilation, pneumothorax, radiological diagnostics, laboratory diagnostics