Subacute COVID-19 Infection Presenting as Indolent Large Pericardial Effusion

Reports of complications as a result of COVID-19 infection are emerging since the virus became a pandemic. Although not fully understood, reports show that the COVID-19 virus has shown acute pericardial involvement resulting from this infection. It can cause a wide range of manifestations from minim...

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Autores principales: Ejikeme, Chidinma, Gonzalez, Melissa, Elkattawy, Sherif, Alyacoub, Ramez, Sherer, Clark
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/PMC7606187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33154841
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10769
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author Ejikeme, Chidinma
Gonzalez, Melissa
Elkattawy, Sherif
Alyacoub, Ramez
Sherer, Clark
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description Reports of complications as a result of COVID-19 infection are emerging since the virus became a pandemic. Although not fully understood, reports show that the COVID-19 virus has shown acute pericardial involvement resulting from this infection. It can cause a wide range of manifestations from minimal effusion to large effusion with tamponade; however, there is little or no data on an indolent course of COVID-19 infection and its resulting manifestations. Here we describe a patient who had minimal disease symptoms for weeks, resulting in sizeable pericardial effusion formation.
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spelling pubmed-76061872020-11-04 Subacute COVID-19 Infection Presenting as Indolent Large Pericardial Effusion Ejikeme, Chidinma Gonzalez, Melissa Elkattawy, Sherif Alyacoub, Ramez Sherer, Clark Cureus Infectious Disease Reports of complications as a result of COVID-19 infection are emerging since the virus became a pandemic. Although not fully understood, reports show that the COVID-19 virus has shown acute pericardial involvement resulting from this infection. It can cause a wide range of manifestations from minimal effusion to large effusion with tamponade; however, there is little or no data on an indolent course of COVID-19 infection and its resulting manifestations. Here we describe a patient who had minimal disease symptoms for weeks, resulting in sizeable pericardial effusion formation. Cureus 2020-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7606187/ /pubmed/33154841 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10769 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ejikeme 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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topic Infectious Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7606187/
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