Pulmonary Involvement in Decompression Sickness of a Self Contained Underwater Breath Apparatus Diver

Abstract

Decompression sickness is a self contained underwater breath apparatus (SCUBA)-related injury with various symptoms and is considered an extreme emergency condition. This is a case of pulmonary involvement in decompression sickness in a 26-year-old SCUBA diver. Although pulmonary involvement in decompression sickness is a potentially severe condition that requires immediate treatment, this condition can be under-or misdiagnosed, and evaluation of this disease by imaging findings is not clearly understood. We experienced a case of pulmonary involvement in decompression sickness and herein present the chest computed tomography and simple radiograph findings associated with this condition.

COVID-19-related complications and decompression illness share main features.

“…The radiological findings in COVID-19 are ground-glass opacity [16] and bilateral patchy shadows. In severe form of DCI of chest involvement, radiological results are similar [17].…”