Bilateral macular hemorrhage in a patient with COVID-19

PURPOSE: We report a case of a patient with a known hereditary spherocytosis who developed a bilateral macular hemorrhage in concurrence with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related respiratory syndrome. OBSERVATIONS: Blood tests showed severe hemolytic anemia. Interesti...

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Autores principales: D'Aloisio, Rossella, Nasillo, Vincenzo, Gironi, Matteo, Mastropasqua, Rodolfo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7546668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33073058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2020.100958
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author D'Aloisio, Rossella
Nasillo, Vincenzo
Gironi, Matteo
Mastropasqua, Rodolfo
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Gironi, Matteo
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description PURPOSE: We report a case of a patient with a known hereditary spherocytosis who developed a bilateral macular hemorrhage in concurrence with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related respiratory syndrome. OBSERVATIONS: Blood tests showed severe hemolytic anemia. Interestingly, the peripheral blood smear demonstrated a mixed pathogenesis of the hemolytic process (cold-agglutinin-mediated and non-immune-mediated due to spherocytosis). CONCLUSIONS AND IMPORTANCE: We argue that SARS-CoV-2 could have triggered the hemolytic process, which led to retinal hemorrhages due to endothelial anoxia from the low oxygen carrying capacity.
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spelling pubmed-75466682020-10-13 Bilateral macular hemorrhage in a patient with COVID-19 D'Aloisio, Rossella Nasillo, Vincenzo Gironi, Matteo Mastropasqua, Rodolfo Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep Case Report PURPOSE: We report a case of a patient with a known hereditary spherocytosis who developed a bilateral macular hemorrhage in concurrence with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related respiratory syndrome. OBSERVATIONS: Blood tests showed severe hemolytic anemia. Interestingly, the peripheral blood smear demonstrated a mixed pathogenesis of the hemolytic process (cold-agglutinin-mediated and non-immune-mediated due to spherocytosis). CONCLUSIONS AND IMPORTANCE: We argue that SARS-CoV-2 could have triggered the hemolytic process, which led to retinal hemorrhages due to endothelial anoxia from the low oxygen carrying capacity. Elsevier 2020-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7546668/ /pubmed/33073058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2020.100958 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7546668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33073058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2020.100958
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