SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with spontaneous pneumothorax

Rohailla et al discuss the case of a 26-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of sudden-onset right-sided pleuritic chest pain and progressive shortness of breath. The patient had not traveled in the preceding 2 weeks, had no history of chest trauma, and had no history of fever, cough or other systemic symptoms. Because of the patient's respiratory symptoms, we did a nasopharyngeal swab for real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction testing, which showed infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).1 We placed a small catheter chest drain, which was later removed. After 48 hours, the patient's pneumothorax and symptoms resolved.