COVID-19 suspicion revealed to be fat embolism syndrome

The novel coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, responsible of the COVID-19 is now causing a pandemic. Detecting all possible cases and eliminating differential diagnoses in front of any acute respiratory distress has become a daily challenge for doctors around the world. We believe that non-COVID patients...

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Autores principales: Mazouz, Salim, Aissaoui, Ouissal, Fehdi, Mohamed Anass, Nsiri, Afak, AlHarrar, Rachid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7406464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32821315
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.104.23631
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author Mazouz, Salim
Aissaoui, Ouissal
Fehdi, Mohamed Anass
Nsiri, Afak
AlHarrar, Rachid
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description The novel coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, responsible of the COVID-19 is now causing a pandemic. Detecting all possible cases and eliminating differential diagnoses in front of any acute respiratory distress has become a daily challenge for doctors around the world. We believe that non-COVID patients are the hidden victims of the actual health problematic. We report from this manuscript the case of a patient with fat embolism syndrome that has been suspected as COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-74064642020-08-19 COVID-19 suspicion revealed to be fat embolism syndrome Mazouz, Salim Aissaoui, Ouissal Fehdi, Mohamed Anass Nsiri, Afak AlHarrar, Rachid Pan Afr Med J Case Report The novel coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, responsible of the COVID-19 is now causing a pandemic. Detecting all possible cases and eliminating differential diagnoses in front of any acute respiratory distress has become a daily challenge for doctors around the world. We believe that non-COVID patients are the hidden victims of the actual health problematic. We report from this manuscript the case of a patient with fat embolism syndrome that has been suspected as COVID-19. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7406464/ /pubmed/32821315 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.104.23631 Text en © Salim Mazouz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7406464/
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