key: cord-0890417-xwpdq8wo
authors: Ramzy, Danny
title: Commentary: Pneumatocele and Cysts in a Patient with SARS-CoV-2 Infection – Yet Another New Complication Associated with COVID.
date: 2020-09-15
journal: JTCVS Tech
DOI: 10.1016/j.xjtc.2020.09.012
sha: e9f3d7fe0bd1a3f70e45b8e52e96d8913221c979
doc_id: 890417
cord_uid: xwpdq8wo

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In December 2019, an outbreak of pneumonia traced to a wet market in Wuhan, China, proliferated into a global pandemic with seemingly exponential vehemence and in just eight months spread globally with over 800, 000 deaths 1,2 . Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 19), is caused by the novel betacoronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is characterized by extreme virulence and a complex spectrum of pathologies ranging in severity from mild constitutional symptoms to multi-organ failure 3 

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