COVID-19 pneumothorax in the UK: a prospective observational study using the ISARIC WHO clinical characterisation protocol

Stefan J Marciniak; James Farrell; Anthony Rostron; Ian Smith; Peter J M Openshaw; J Kenneth Baillie; Annemarie Docherty; Malcolm G Semple

doi:10.1183/13993003.00929-2021

COVID-19 pneumothorax in the UK: a prospective observational study using the ISARIC WHO clinical characterisation protocol

Eur Respir J. 2021 Sep 16;58(3):2100929. doi: 10.1183/13993003.00929-2021. Print 2021 Sep.

Authors

Stefan J Marciniak^{1

2

3

4}, James Farrell^{5

4}, Anthony Rostron^{6

7

8}, Ian Smith³, Peter J M Openshaw⁹, J Kenneth Baillie^{10

11

12}, Annemarie Docherty⁵, Malcolm G Semple¹³

Affiliations

¹ CIMR, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK sjm20@cam.ac.uk.
² Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
³ Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
⁴ Joint first authors.
⁵ Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁶ Integrated Critical Care Unit, Sunderland Royal Hospital, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland, UK.
⁷ Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
⁸ South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland, UK.
⁹ Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹⁰ Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹¹ MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹² Intensive Care Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹³ NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infection Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Abstract

Population level data from 131 679 patients show that COVID-19 pneumothorax occurs in 0.97% of admitted patients, especially males and smokers, and is associated with increased mortality https://bit.ly/3oB27ez

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Observational Studies as Topic
Pneumothorax* / diagnosis
SARS-CoV-2
United Kingdom
World Health Organization

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding