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cord-259306-3ldoo5ly	Gillespie, Megan	Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Complicated by Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum and Pneumothorax	2020-09-23		.txt	text/plain	806	59	42	The first reports of severe acute respiratory symptoms from a novel coronavirus called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December 2019.(1) The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic by March 2020.(1) The COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in a current global health emergency. The first reports of severe acute respiratory symptoms from a novel coronavirus called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) occurred in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in December 2019. Chest x-ray was repeated on this seventh day of his hospitalization, and spontaneous pneumomediastinum, subcutaneous emphysema, and bilateral patchy airspace disease were noted, all new findings compared to CXR on initial presentation (Figure 2 ). With these new findings on portable CXR, the patient had a computed tomography (CT) chest without IV contrast performed that also demonstrated extensive pneumomediastinum and bilateral groundglass opacities, but no pleural or pericardial effusion, no pneumothorax, and no lymphadenopathy (Figure 3 ).	./cache/cord-259306-3ldoo5ly.txt	./txt/cord-259306-3ldoo5ly.txt