Unheralded Lower limb threatening ischemia in a COVID-19 patient

Acute thromboembolic events appear to be frequent in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. We report a case of an intubated patient, who developed a threatening lower limb ischemia. Intra-arterial fibrinolysis and intravenous heparin infusion did not lead to complete recanalization of the tibial arter...

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Autores principales: Vacirca, Andrea, Faggioli, Gianluca, Pini, Rodolfo, Teutonico, Paolo, Pilato, Alessandro, Gargiulo, Mauro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7242202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32447121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.05.060
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Sumario:Acute thromboembolic events appear to be frequent in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. We report a case of an intubated patient, who developed a threatening lower limb ischemia. Intra-arterial fibrinolysis and intravenous heparin infusion did not lead to complete recanalization of the tibial arteries, which were successfully treated by surgical embolectomy.

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