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Case series of COVID-19 with spontaneous pneumomediastinum

Nur Munirah I, Chidambaram SK

Med J Malaysia, 2022 01;77(1):92-94.

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is a rare condition in viral pneumonia. However, it can arise spontaneously in COVID-19 patients with no other risk factors. Here we present four cases of spontaneous pneumomediastinum in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia with no other precipitating factors.

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext Letter to the Editor in response to "COVID-19: desperate times call for desperate measures"

Chase JG, Chiew YS, Lambermont B, Morimont P, Shaw GM, Desaive T

Crit Care, 2020 07 10;24(1):415.

PMID: 32650807 DOI: 10.1186/s13054-020-03152-6

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext The impact of COVID-19 and the restoration of tuberculosis services in the Western Pacific Region

Chiang CY, Islam T, Xu C, Chinnayah T, Garfin AMC, Rahevar K, et al.

Eur Respir J, 2020 Oct;56(4).

PMID: 32978310 DOI: 10.1183/13993003.03054-2020

While COVID-19 has imposed great challenges to national tuberculosis programmes, it has also created opportunities to develop innovative strategies to ensure continuity of TB services and ultimately to strengthen TB care, prevention and control https://bit.ly/3bHDQx0

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext COVID-19: rethinking risk

Schwalbe N, Lehtimaki S, Gutiérrez JP

Lancet Glob Health, 2020 08;8(8):e974-e975.

PMID: 32553131 DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30276-X

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology*

In Reply to the Letter to the Editor Regarding "Impact of COVID-19 on Neurosurgical Training in Southeast Asia"

Baticulon RE, Nga VDW, Sobana M, Bahuri NFA, Wittayanakorn N

World Neurosurg, 2020 12;144:332.

PMID: 33227873 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.09.086

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext Application of an anti-aerosol box for esophagogastroduodenoscopy during the COVID-19 pandemic: double up the protection

Zhiqin W, Muhammad Nawawi KN, Raja Ali RA

Endoscopy, 2020 08;52(8):704-705.

PMID: 32722836 DOI: 10.1055/a-1168-6841

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext In-Parallel Ventilator Sharing during an Acute Shortage: Too Much Risk for a Wider Uptake

Chase JG, Chiew YS, Lambermont B, Morimont P, Shaw GM, Desaive T

Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2020 11 01;202(9):1316-1317.

PMID: 32744454 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202006-2420LE

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext Role of frailty in COVID-19 patients

Kow CS, Hasan SS

Intensive Care Med, 2020 10;46(10):1956-1957.

PMID: 32638046 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-020-06172-6

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology*

Fulltext Use of Azithromycin in COVID-19: A Cautionary Tale

Kow CS, Hasan SS

Clin Drug Investig, 2020 10;40(10):989-990.

PMID: 32816219 DOI: 10.1007/s40261-020-00961-z

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext Understanding and reducing the fear of COVID-19

Ng KH, Kemp R

J Zhejiang Univ Sci B, 2020 9 8;21(9):752-754.

PMID: 32893533 DOI: 10.1631/jzus.B2000228

The world is now plagued by a pandemic of unprecedented nature caused by a novel, emerging, and still poorly understood infectious disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (Wu and McGoogan, 2020). In addition to the rapidly growing body of scientific and medical literature that is being published, extensive public reports and stories in both the traditional media and social media have served to generate fear, panic, stigmatization, and instances of xenophobia (Zarocostas, 2020).

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology; Pneumonia, Viral/psychology*

Fulltext Monitoring of three-phase variations in the mortality of COVID-19 pandemic using control charts: where does Pakistan stand?

Mahmood Y, Ishtiaq S, Khoo MBC, Teh SY, Khan H

Int J Qual Health Care, 2021 Apr 16;33(2).

PMID: 33822932 DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzab062

BACKGROUND: At the end of December 2019, the world in general and Wuhan, the industrial hub of China, in particular, experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. Massive increment of cases and deaths occurred in China and 209 countries in Europe, America, Australia, Asia and Pakistan. Pakistan was first hit by COVID-19 when a case was reported in Karachi on 26 February 2020. Several methods were presented to model the death rate due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to forecast the pinnacle of reported deaths. Still, these methods were not used in identifying the first day when Pakistan enters or exits the early exponential growth phase.

OBJECTIVE: The present study intends to monitor variations in deaths and identify the growth phases such as pre-growth, growth, and post-growth phases in Pakistan due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

METHODS: New approaches are needed that display the death patterns and signal an alarming situation so that corrective actions can be taken before the condition worsens. To meet this purpose, secondary data on daily reported deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been considered, and the $c$ and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control charts are used To meet this purpose, secondary data on daily reported deaths in Pakistan due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been considered. The $ c$ and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control charts have been used for monitoring variations.

RESULTS: The chart shows that Pakistan switches from the pre-growth to the growth phase on 31 March 2020. The EWMA chart demonstrates that Pakistan remains in the growth phase from 31 March 2020 to 17 August 2020, with some indications signaling a decrease in deaths. It is found that Pakistan moved to a post-growth phase for a brief period from 27 July 2020 to 28 July 2020. Pakistan switches to re-growth phase with an alarm on 31/7/2020, right after the short-term post-growth phase. The number of deaths starts decreasing in August in that Pakistan may approach the post-growth phase shortly.

CONCLUSION: This amalgamation of control charts illustrates a systematic implementation of the charts for government leaders and forefront medical teams to facilitate the rapid detection of daily reported deaths due to COVID-19. Besides government and public health officials, it is also the public's responsibility to follow the enforced standard operating procedures as a temporary remedy of this pandemic in ensuring public safety while awaiting a suitable vaccine to be discovered.

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral/mortality*; Pneumonia, Viral/virology

Fulltext Letter to the Editor in response to the article: "Increase in the risk of type 2 diabetes during lockdown for the COVID19 pandemic in India: A cohort analysis" (Ghoshal et al.)

Chand R, Asmil SH, Chico M

Diabetes Metab Syndr, 2020 07 12;14(5):1305.

PMID: 32755826 DOI: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.057

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext Urologic Services in Public Hospitals Suffered a Greater Detriment Than Private Hospitals During the Battle of COVID-19

Ong WLK, Lechmiannandan S, Loeb S, Teoh JY

Urology, 2020 10;144:269-270.

PMID: 32687841 DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2020.07.010

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext Brain imaging findings in COVID-19: What do we know so far?

Md Noh MSF

J Neuroradiol, 2020 Sep;47(5):329-330.

PMID: 32444286 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurad.2020.05.004

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology

Fulltext Clinical and conceptual comments on "Risk factors of critical & mortal COVID-19 cases: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis"

Jayaraj R, Kumarasamy C, Shetty SS, Ram M R, Shaw P

J Infect, 2020 10;81(4):647-679.

PMID: 32407756 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.011

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology*

Fulltext Air quality status during 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (MCO) due to 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) pandemic

Abdullah S, Mansor AA, Napi NNLM, Mansor WNW, Ahmed AN, Ismail M, et al.

Sci Total Environ, 2020 Aug 10;729:139022.

PMID: 32353722 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139022

An outbreak of respiratory illness which is proven to be infected by a 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) officially named as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first detected in Wuhan, China and has spread rapidly in other parts of China as well as other countries around the world, including Malaysia. The first case in Malaysia was identified on 25 January 2020 and the number of cases continue to rise since March 2020. Therefore, 2020 Malaysia Movement Control Order (MCO) was implemented with the aim to isolate the source of the COVID-19 outbreak. As a result, there were fewer number of motor vehicles on the road and the operation of industries was suspended, ergo reducing emissions of hazardous air pollutants in the atmosphere. We had acquired the Air Pollutant Index (API) data from the Department of Environment Malaysia on hourly basis before and during the MCO with the aim to track the changes of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at 68 air quality monitoring stations. It was found that the PM2.5 concentrations showed a high reduction of up to 58.4% during the MCO. Several red zone areas (>41 confirmed COVID-19 cases) had also reduced of up to 28.3% in the PM2.5 concentrations variation. The reduction did not solely depend on MCO, thus the researchers suggest a further study considering the influencing factors that need to be adhered to in the future.

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext COVID-19 Highlights the Need for More Effective Wildlife Trade Legislation

Borzée A, McNeely J, Magellan K, Miller JRB, Porter L, Dutta T, et al.

Trends Ecol Evol, 2020 12;35(12):1052-1055.

PMID: 33097287 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.10.001

Zoonosis-based epidemics are inevitable unless we revisit our relationship with the natural world, protect habitats, and regulate wildlife trade, including live animals and non-sustenance products. To prevent future zoonoses, governments must establish effective legislation addressing wildlife trade, protection of habitats, and reduction of the wildlife-livestock-human interface.

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext Use of rituximab and the risk of adverse clinical outcomes in COVID-19 patients with systemic rheumatic disease

Kow CS, Hasan SS

Rheumatol Int, 2020 12;40(12):2117-2118.

PMID: 33044704 DOI: 10.1007/s00296-020-04715-0

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext Comparative seasonalities of influenza A, B and 'common cold' coronaviruses - setting the scene for SARS-CoV-2 infections and possible unexpected host immune interactions

Liu Y, Lam TTY, Lai FYL, Krajden M, Drews SJ, Hatchette TF, et al.

J Infect, 2020 08;81(2):e62-e64.

PMID: 32360499 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.04.032

Matched MeSH terms: Pneumonia, Viral*

Fulltext What is the best timing for health care workers infected with COVID-19 to return to work?