Journal des maladies infectieuses et de la thérapie

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A Healthy Athletic Male with Covid-19 Infection Who Presented With Pneumothorax

Muhammad Rizwan, Basharat Ahmad, Muhammad Mohsin, Robert Delapenha and Nicholas Azinge

COVID-19 infection pandemic caused by novel corona virus has impacted the whole world ubiquitously.Most common presenting symptoms of COVID-19 infection of are fever, constitutional symptoms,respiratory symptoms and GI symptoms. COVID-19 infection primarily targets lungs which can potentiallylead to ARDS. However, initial studies and multiple case reports have reported various other clinicalpresentations. In this case report, we describe a case of COVID-19 infection presenting with spontaneouspneumothorax