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A Case Report of Polymerase Chain Reaction-Confirmed COVID-19 in a Patient With Right Ventricular Thrombus and Bilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis
The new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), that causes the highly contagious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to an unprecedented global health crisis. Infected patients have been shown to trigger a heightened inflammatory response, increasing throm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364394/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32685302 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8633 |
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author | Elkattawy, Sherif Younes, Islam Noori, Muhammad Atif Masood |
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description | The new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), that causes the highly contagious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to an unprecedented global health crisis. Infected patients have been shown to trigger a heightened inflammatory response, increasing thrombotic risk. We report the case of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-confirmed COVID-19 in a Hispanic male with no past medical history who presented to the ED with upper respiratory tract symptoms including shortness of breath and cough, requiring continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy. He was found to have a right ventricular thrombus (RVT) and bilateral deep vein thrombosis (DVT) on the day of admission, which were detected on transthoracic echocardiogram and duplex venous ultrasound, respectively. The patient was started on therapeutic enoxaparin sodium, which led to an improvement in oxygenation, and he was eventually downgraded to the medical floors for further management. |
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spelling | pubmed-73643942020-07-17 A Case Report of Polymerase Chain Reaction-Confirmed COVID-19 in a Patient With Right Ventricular Thrombus and Bilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis Elkattawy, Sherif Younes, Islam Noori, Muhammad Atif Masood Cureus Cardiology The new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), that causes the highly contagious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to an unprecedented global health crisis. Infected patients have been shown to trigger a heightened inflammatory response, increasing thrombotic risk. We report the case of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-confirmed COVID-19 in a Hispanic male with no past medical history who presented to the ED with upper respiratory tract symptoms including shortness of breath and cough, requiring continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy. He was found to have a right ventricular thrombus (RVT) and bilateral deep vein thrombosis (DVT) on the day of admission, which were detected on transthoracic echocardiogram and duplex venous ultrasound, respectively. The patient was started on therapeutic enoxaparin sodium, which led to an improvement in oxygenation, and he was eventually downgraded to the medical floors for further management. Cureus 2020-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7364394/ /pubmed/32685302 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8633 Text en Copyright © 2020, Elkattawy et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Cardiology Elkattawy, Sherif Younes, Islam Noori, Muhammad Atif Masood A Case Report of Polymerase Chain Reaction-Confirmed COVID-19 in a Patient With Right Ventricular Thrombus and Bilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis |
title | A Case Report of Polymerase Chain Reaction-Confirmed COVID-19 in a Patient With Right Ventricular Thrombus and Bilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis |
title_full | A Case Report of Polymerase Chain Reaction-Confirmed COVID-19 in a Patient With Right Ventricular Thrombus and Bilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis |
title_fullStr | A Case Report of Polymerase Chain Reaction-Confirmed COVID-19 in a Patient With Right Ventricular Thrombus and Bilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis |
title_full_unstemmed | A Case Report of Polymerase Chain Reaction-Confirmed COVID-19 in a Patient With Right Ventricular Thrombus and Bilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis |
title_short | A Case Report of Polymerase Chain Reaction-Confirmed COVID-19 in a Patient With Right Ventricular Thrombus and Bilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis |
title_sort | case report of polymerase chain reaction-confirmed covid-19 in a patient with right ventricular thrombus and bilateral deep vein thrombosis |
topic | Cardiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364394/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32685302 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8633 |
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