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Methods: We retrospectively reviewed non-COVID-related pneumothorax patients who visited our hospital before the onset of the pandemic and during the pandemic. The primary outcome was the difference in the amount of pneumothorax between the two periods, and the secondary outcome was the difference in the treatment results between them. Multivariable logistic regression was conducted to find risk factors related to massive pneumothorax. Results: There were 122 and 88 patients in the pre-pandemic and pandemic groups, respectively. There was no significant difference between the two groups with respect to the preoperative demographic variables. However, the median amount of pneumothorax was significantly higher in the pandemic group (pre-pandemic: 34.75% [interquartile range (IQR) 18.30\u201362.95] vs. pandemic: 53.55% [IQR 33.58\u201388.80], p &lt; 0.0001) and massive pneumothorax were more frequent in the pandemic group (52.3% vs. 30.3%, p = 0.002). Furthermore, more patients experienced re-expansion pulmonary edema after treatments during the pandemic (p = 0.0366). In multivariable analysis, the pandemic (OR: 2.70 [95% CI 1.49\u20134.90], p = 0.0011) was related to the occurrence of massive pneumothorax. Conclusion: During the pandemic, patients presented with a larger size of pneumothorax and had more re-expansion pulmonary edema, even in a country that handled the COVID-19 pandemic relatively well.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm11030795","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,1]],"date-time":"2022-02-01T09:59:21Z","timestamp":1643709561000},"page":"795","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["The Collateral Damage of the Pandemic on Non-COVID Related Pneumothorax Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0053-4470","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wongi","family":"Woo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Gangnam Severance Hospital, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul 06273, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bong Jun","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Gangnam Severance Hospital, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul 06273, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ji Hoon","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Gangnam Severance Hospital, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul 06273, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8998-9510","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sungsoo","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Gangnam Severance Hospital, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul 06273, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1388-2471","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Duk Hwan","family":"Moon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Gangnam Severance Hospital, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul 06273, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"COVIDSurg Collaborative (2020). 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