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These complications may be underdiagnosed in patients with COVID-19. Cardiomyopathy and pneumothorax may cause or exacerbate respiratory failure. If their management is delayed, cardiac arrest can occur. To increase the awareness of these issues, we describe the course and imaging of a 39-year-old woman with severe COVID-19 who developed cardiomyopathy and a small anterior pneumothorax with pneumomediastinum. Transthoracic echocardiography is technically challenging in the presence of anterior pneumothorax. Furthermore, although CT is the gold standard for the diagnosis of pneumothorax, this is not always feasible in critically ill patients. 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