Dual catastrophe of COVID-19: Massive pulmonary embolism and stroke in a previously healthy young patient: A case report

We are reporting a 45-year-old woman with COVID-19 who presented to the Emergency Department with a transient loss of consciousness and was found to have a massive pulmonary embolism and an acute stroke. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case that calls for attention to the importance of...

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Autores principales: AlSheef, Mohammed, Zaidi, Abdul Rehman Z., Abonab, Majid, Obaid, Mona, Bawazir, Khalid, Zaidi, Syed Ziauddin A., Kullab, Ghaydaa J., Alawfi, Sultan, Enani, Mushira
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7847184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33857723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.01.009
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author AlSheef, Mohammed
Zaidi, Abdul Rehman Z.
Abonab, Majid
Obaid, Mona
Bawazir, Khalid
Zaidi, Syed Ziauddin A.
Kullab, Ghaydaa J.
Alawfi, Sultan
Enani, Mushira
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Zaidi, Abdul Rehman Z.
Abonab, Majid
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description We are reporting a 45-year-old woman with COVID-19 who presented to the Emergency Department with a transient loss of consciousness and was found to have a massive pulmonary embolism and an acute stroke. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case that calls for attention to the importance of vigilance for such a catastrophic presentation of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-78471842021-02-01 Dual catastrophe of COVID-19: Massive pulmonary embolism and stroke in a previously healthy young patient: A case report AlSheef, Mohammed Zaidi, Abdul Rehman Z. Abonab, Majid Obaid, Mona Bawazir, Khalid Zaidi, Syed Ziauddin A. Kullab, Ghaydaa J. Alawfi, Sultan Enani, Mushira J Infect Public Health Case Report We are reporting a 45-year-old woman with COVID-19 who presented to the Emergency Department with a transient loss of consciousness and was found to have a massive pulmonary embolism and an acute stroke. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case that calls for attention to the importance of vigilance for such a catastrophic presentation of COVID-19. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. 2021-05 2021-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7847184/ /pubmed/33857723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.01.009 Text en © 2021 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
spellingShingle Case Report
AlSheef, Mohammed
Zaidi, Abdul Rehman Z.
Abonab, Majid
Obaid, Mona
Bawazir, Khalid
Zaidi, Syed Ziauddin A.
Kullab, Ghaydaa J.
Alawfi, Sultan
Enani, Mushira
Dual catastrophe of COVID-19: Massive pulmonary embolism and stroke in a previously healthy young patient: A case report
title Dual catastrophe of COVID-19: Massive pulmonary embolism and stroke in a previously healthy young patient: A case report
title_full Dual catastrophe of COVID-19: Massive pulmonary embolism and stroke in a previously healthy young patient: A case report
title_fullStr Dual catastrophe of COVID-19: Massive pulmonary embolism and stroke in a previously healthy young patient: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Dual catastrophe of COVID-19: Massive pulmonary embolism and stroke in a previously healthy young patient: A case report
title_short Dual catastrophe of COVID-19: Massive pulmonary embolism and stroke in a previously healthy young patient: A case report
title_sort dual catastrophe of covid-19: massive pulmonary embolism and stroke in a previously healthy young patient: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7847184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33857723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2021.01.009
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