Cargando…

Unexpected Presentation of COVID-19 in a 38-Year-Old Male Patient: A Case Report

We presently report the case of COVID-19 in a 38-year-old male who had come to the primary health care clinic of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, which specializes in the COVID-19 epidemic. He reported having fatigue, myalgia, fever, rash, and loss of taste and smell. The physical fin...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Malih, Narges, Hajinasrollah, Ghazal, Zare, Marjan, Taheri, Mahboobeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2020
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7443664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32884519
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000509994
_version_ 1783573670166265856
author Malih, Narges
Hajinasrollah, Ghazal
Zare, Marjan
Taheri, Mahboobeh
author_facet Malih, Narges
Hajinasrollah, Ghazal
Zare, Marjan
Taheri, Mahboobeh
author_sort Malih, Narges
collection PubMed
description We presently report the case of COVID-19 in a 38-year-old male who had come to the primary health care clinic of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, which specializes in the COVID-19 epidemic. He reported having fatigue, myalgia, fever, rash, and loss of taste and smell. The physical findings were maculopapular rash over his trunk, inguinal regions, and left arm, erythema of larynx with an aphthous lesion on left tonsil, he did not have a fever, and respiratory distress symptoms. There were no changes regarding COVID-19 in the spiral lung CT scan. However, the result of PCR for COVID-19 RNA was positive.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7443664
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2020
publisher S. Karger AG
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-74436642020-09-02 Unexpected Presentation of COVID-19 in a 38-Year-Old Male Patient: A Case Report Malih, Narges Hajinasrollah, Ghazal Zare, Marjan Taheri, Mahboobeh Case Rep Dermatol Single Case We presently report the case of COVID-19 in a 38-year-old male who had come to the primary health care clinic of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, which specializes in the COVID-19 epidemic. He reported having fatigue, myalgia, fever, rash, and loss of taste and smell. The physical findings were maculopapular rash over his trunk, inguinal regions, and left arm, erythema of larynx with an aphthous lesion on left tonsil, he did not have a fever, and respiratory distress symptoms. There were no changes regarding COVID-19 in the spiral lung CT scan. However, the result of PCR for COVID-19 RNA was positive. S. Karger AG 2020-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7443664/ /pubmed/32884519 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000509994 Text en Copyright © 2020 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-4.0 International License (CC BY-NC) (http://www.karger.com/Services/OpenAccessLicense). Usage and distribution for commercial purposes requires written permission.
spellingShingle Single Case
Malih, Narges
Hajinasrollah, Ghazal
Zare, Marjan
Taheri, Mahboobeh
Unexpected Presentation of COVID-19 in a 38-Year-Old Male Patient: A Case Report
title Unexpected Presentation of COVID-19 in a 38-Year-Old Male Patient: A Case Report
title_full Unexpected Presentation of COVID-19 in a 38-Year-Old Male Patient: A Case Report
title_fullStr Unexpected Presentation of COVID-19 in a 38-Year-Old Male Patient: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Unexpected Presentation of COVID-19 in a 38-Year-Old Male Patient: A Case Report
title_short Unexpected Presentation of COVID-19 in a 38-Year-Old Male Patient: A Case Report
title_sort unexpected presentation of covid-19 in a 38-year-old male patient: a case report
topic Single Case
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7443664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32884519
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000509994
work_keys_str_mv AT malihnarges unexpectedpresentationofcovid19ina38yearoldmalepatientacasereport
AT hajinasrollahghazal unexpectedpresentationofcovid19ina38yearoldmalepatientacasereport
AT zaremarjan unexpectedpresentationofcovid19ina38yearoldmalepatientacasereport
AT taherimahboobeh unexpectedpresentationofcovid19ina38yearoldmalepatientacasereport