Evaluation of the Hospitalized Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients in First 3 Months of the Pandemic.

Objective: Data about Turkish coronavirus disease 2019 patients are limited. We evaluated hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 patients who were followed up in the first 3 months of the pandemic.

Material And Methods: This retrospective, single-center, observational study included 415 confirmed hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 patients.

Cement Pulmonary Embolism Due to Percutaneous Vertebroplasty.

Background: Bone cement is an uncommon cause of foreign-body pulmonary embolism.

Case Presentation: A 65-year-old woman with wheeze presented with multiple linear opacities with bone density on chest x-ray. She reported percutaneous vertebroplasty 4 months prior.

Pulmonary barotrauma during hookah diving: a case report.

When commercial sea harvesters have dive accidents, it is sometimes difficult to obtain an accurate dive history and make a definitive diagnosis. We report a sea harvest diver who dived to collect sea snails (Rapana venosa) by using a hookah dive system. He experienced mediastinal and subcutaneous emphysema due to interruption of breathing airflow.

Middle Lobe Syndrome Associated with Bronchial Anthracofibrosis.

Bronchial anthracofibrosis has been defined as airway narrowing associated with dark pigmentation on bronchoscopy without an appropriate history of pneumoconiosis or smoking. We present a case of a 67-year-old, non-smoking female patient who was referred to our clinic for two years of persistent cough. Spirometry was within normal limits.