Isolated Pneumopericardium: A Rare Complication Secondary to COVID-19 Infection

Pneumopericardium in the setting of COVID-19 is a rare incident. Typically, COVID-19 manifests with respiratory failure, cytokine storm, and gastrointestinal and cardiac symptoms. Chest X-ray (CXR) shows patchy peripheral opacities in bilateral lung fields and computed tomography (CT) shows multifoc...

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Published inCurēus (Palo Alto, CA) Vol. 14; no. 3; p. e23431
Main Authors Kara, Sam, Talalaev, Michael, Yatzkan, George D, Youssef, Pamela, Nedd, Kester
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Cureus Inc 23.03.2022
Cureus
Subjects
Cardiology
Case reports
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Critical care
Dyspnea
Infections
Infectious Disease
Mortality
Patients
Pneumonia
Pneumothorax
Pulmonology
Respiratory failure
Trauma
Ventilators
United States > US
trauma
covid-19
covid-19 and heart
pneumopericardium
tension pneumopericardium
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Summary:Pneumopericardium in the setting of COVID-19 is a rare incident. Typically, COVID-19 manifests with respiratory failure, cytokine storm, and gastrointestinal and cardiac symptoms. Chest X-ray (CXR) shows patchy peripheral opacities in bilateral lung fields and computed tomography (CT) shows multifocal ground-glass opacities in a COVID-19 patient. However, CXR is relatively less specific when compared to CT. In this case report, we present a case of isolated pneumopericardium (without pneumomediastinum) in a young female patient with COVID-19 pneumonia. Not only is the mechanism of development of pneumopericardium in COVID-19 patients poorly understood, but it is also considered a bad prognostic factor that leads to mortality.
ISSN:2168-8184
2168-8184
DOI:10.7759/cureus.23431