Complications of severe COVID-19 (сlinical case)

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The article presents a clinical case of 57-year-old patient with a severe form of lung damage by COVID-19, complicated by pneumothorax. Lung damage regressed, pneumothorax was stopped, and the patient was discharged for outpatient treatment after drug therapy and surgical intervention. Pneumothorax can be considered as one of the severe, life-threatening complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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S. S. Plastinina

1Privolzksky Reseach Medical University; Сity Clinical Hospital Third

Author for correspondence.
Email: plastininaswetlana@yandex.ru

Candidate of Medical Sciences

Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod; Nizhny Novgorod

A. A. Tulichev

Privolzksky Reseach Medical University; Сity Clinical Hospital Third

Email: plastininaswetlana@yandex.ru

Candidate of Medical Sciences

Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod; Nizhny Novgorod

E. V. Makarova

Privolzksky Reseach Medical University; Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Hygiene and Occupational Pathology of Rospotrebnadzor

Email: plastininaswetlana@yandex.ru

MD

Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod; Nizhny Novgorod

N. A. Lyubavina

Privolzksky Reseach Medical University

Email: plastininaswetlana@yandex.ru

Candidate of Medical Sciences

Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod

N. V. Menkov

Privolzksky Reseach Medical University

Email: plastininaswetlana@yandex.ru

Candidate of Medical Sciences

Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod

E. V. Konyukhova

Сity Clinical Hospital Third

Email: plastininaswetlana@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod

M. A. Chmuzh

Сity Clinical Hospital Fifth

Email: plastininaswetlana@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod

A. S. Sidnev

Сity Clinical Hospital Fifth

Email: plastininaswetlana@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod

D. D. Vasina

Privolzksky Reseach Medical University

Email: plastininaswetlana@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod

M. A. Kuzmina

Privolzksky Reseach Medical University

Email: plastininaswetlana@yandex.ru
Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod

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2. Fig. 1. A patient’s chest multislice computed tomography (MSCT) dated May 20, 2020 (explanation in the text)

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3. Fig. 2. A patient’s chest radiography dated June 13, 2020 (explanation in the text)

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4. Fig. 3. Chest MSCT dated June 27, 2020 (explanation in the text)

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5. Fig. 4. Chest MSCT dated July 7, 2020 (explanation in the text)

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