Chan, Wai Yee and Hamid, Marlina T. Ramli and Lim, Yi Ting and Ng, Ching Ching and Muhammad Gowdh, Nadia Fareeda and Rahmat, Kartini (2022) Pulmonary complications of COVID-19: A case report. Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal [SQUMJ], 22 (1). 138 – 143. ISSN 2075-051X, DOI https://doi.org/10.18295/squmj.4.2021.070.
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Rapid evolution of pulmonary complications associated with severe COVID-19 pneumonia often pose a management challenge to clinicians especially in the critical care setting. Serial chest imaging enable clinicians to better monitor disease progression and identify potential complications early which may decrease the mortality and morbidity associated with COVID-19. We report a 69-year-old male patient with severe COVID-19 pneumonia who presented to a tertiary referral centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2020 with multiple pulmonary complications including lung cavitation, bronchopleural fistula, pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, subcutaneous emphysema and acute pulmonary embolism. Unfortunately, the patient died one month after admission. COVID-19 patients may develop pulmonary complications due to a combination of direct viral lung damage, hypoxaemia and high stress ventilation. Awareness of COVID-19 complications can prompt early diagnosis and timely management to reduce morbidity and mortality. © 2022, Sultan Qaboos University. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Universiti Malaya [Grant no. CSRG002-2020ST] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Aged; COVID-19; Humans; Lung; Malaysia; Male; Pneumonia, Viral; Thorax; Aged; Case report; Complication; Diagnostic imaging; Human; Lung; Malaysia; Male; Thorax; Virus pneumonia |
| Subjects: | R Medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Anaesthesiology Department Faculty of Medicine > Biomedical Imaging Department |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2025 01:40 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2025 01:40 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/43262 |
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