{"title":"COVID-19 Case Complicated with Organizing Pneumonia and Pneumothorax: A Case Report","authors":"T. Phillips, Hammad A. Bhatti, Minh Q Ho","doi":"10.55504/2473-2869.1237","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Organizing pneumonia can be idiopathic or caused by multi- ple etiologies, including viral or bacterial pneumonia, drugs, and autoimmune disorders. It can rarely lead to cyst forma- tion and pneumothorax with the exact mechanism remaining unclear. This case presents a previously healthy 50-year- old male who contracted COVID-19 with subsequent develop-ment of organizing pneumonia and pneumothorax. Patients presenting with hypoxic respiratory failure due to COVID- 19 should be screened for organizing pneumonia upon dis-charge. This case also illustrates the importance of follow- ing such patients radiologically to monitor interstitial lung disease and consider pneumothorax for patients re-presenting with acute symptoms.","PeriodicalId":91979,"journal":{"name":"The University of Louisville journal of respiratory infections","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The University of Louisville journal of respiratory infections","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.55504/2473-2869.1237","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Organizing pneumonia can be idiopathic or caused by multi- ple etiologies, including viral or bacterial pneumonia, drugs, and autoimmune disorders. It can rarely lead to cyst forma- tion and pneumothorax with the exact mechanism remaining unclear. This case presents a previously healthy 50-year- old male who contracted COVID-19 with subsequent develop-ment of organizing pneumonia and pneumothorax. Patients presenting with hypoxic respiratory failure due to COVID- 19 should be screened for organizing pneumonia upon dis-charge. This case also illustrates the importance of follow- ing such patients radiologically to monitor interstitial lung disease and consider pneumothorax for patients re-presenting with acute symptoms.