Pneumomediastinum As A New Rare Complicance Of Covid-19 Pneumonia: CT Findings |Biomedgrid

The Covid-19 Coronavirus infectious pandemic began since December 2019, mainly causing bilateral interstitial pneumonia in affected patients. The heterogeneity of the course and clinical frameworks of the pathology represents an important problem for health providers, who are faced with both the acute phase of the disease and the possible complications. An optimal management of patients was, initially, very hard. So, the use of computed tomography (CT) imaging in the diagnosis and follow-up had rapidly grown, and radiological patterns along the disease course were increasingly understood. Many typical imaging features of this disease were described: bilateral multilobar ground-glass opacity (GGO), with a prevalent peripheral or posterior distribution, mainly in the lower lobes; consolidative areas of the lungs; septal thickenings; bronchiectasis; pleural thickenings and subpleural involvements. Unenhanced chest CT is considered the first-line imaging tool for the diagnosis, the severity assessment, and monitoring of Covid-19 pneumonia [1].