Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Internal Medicine, Ampang Hospital, Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 2 Infectious Disease Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Ampang Hospital, Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia
Case Rep Med, 2022;2022:8275326.
PMID: 35898334 DOI: 10.1155/2022/8275326

Abstract

The global pandemic of COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus. We continue to discover the wide spectrum of complications associated with COVID-19. Some well-known complications include pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumothorax, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), chronic fatigue, multiorgan dysfunction, and long COVID-19 syndrome. We report a rare case of a 51-year-old man with severe COVID-19 pneumonia who developed haemorrhagic shock secondary to spontaneous haemothorax after 17 days of hospitalisation. Clinicians should be aware of such occurrence, and hence, high clinical suspicion, prompt recognition of signs and symptoms of shock, and adequate resuscitation will improve the outcomes of patients.

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