Paying in Blood: A Case of Thrombocytopenia in Covid-19

Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) primarily involves the respiratory system. Consumptive coagulopathy is seen in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and multi-organ failure (MOF). Usually, only severely sick patients develop mild thrombocytopenia. We present a case of mildly symptomat...

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Autores principales: Malik, Jahanzeb, Javaid, Muhammad, Majedi, Omaid, Ishaq, Uzma, Zahid, Tayyaba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7491688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953307
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9791
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author Malik, Jahanzeb
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Majedi, Omaid
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Zahid, Tayyaba
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description Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) primarily involves the respiratory system. Consumptive coagulopathy is seen in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and multi-organ failure (MOF). Usually, only severely sick patients develop mild thrombocytopenia. We present a case of mildly symptomatic young adult, presenting with severe thrombocytopenia. She responded well to corticosteroids.
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spelling pubmed-74916882020-09-17 Paying in Blood: A Case of Thrombocytopenia in Covid-19 Malik, Jahanzeb Javaid, Muhammad Majedi, Omaid Ishaq, Uzma Zahid, Tayyaba Cureus Infectious Disease Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) primarily involves the respiratory system. Consumptive coagulopathy is seen in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and multi-organ failure (MOF). Usually, only severely sick patients develop mild thrombocytopenia. We present a case of mildly symptomatic young adult, presenting with severe thrombocytopenia. She responded well to corticosteroids. Cureus 2020-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7491688/ /pubmed/32953307 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9791 Text en Copyright © 2020, Malik 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.
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Paying in Blood: A Case of Thrombocytopenia in Covid-19
title Paying in Blood: A Case of Thrombocytopenia in Covid-19
title_full Paying in Blood: A Case of Thrombocytopenia in Covid-19
title_fullStr Paying in Blood: A Case of Thrombocytopenia in Covid-19
title_full_unstemmed Paying in Blood: A Case of Thrombocytopenia in Covid-19
title_short Paying in Blood: A Case of Thrombocytopenia in Covid-19
title_sort paying in blood: a case of thrombocytopenia in covid-19
topic Infectious Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7491688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32953307
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9791
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