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Punctured lung affects almost one in 100 hospitalised COVID-19 patients.

  • Writer: Pam King Sams
    Pam King Sams
  • Sep 17, 2020
  • 1 min read

As many as one in 100 patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 develop a pneumothorax – a ‘punctured lung’ – according to a study led by Cambridge researchers. “Doctors need to be alert to the possibility of a punctured lung in patients with COVID-19, even in people who would not be thought to be typical at-risk patients,” says Professor Stefan Marciniak from the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.





 
 
 

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