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Multiple Arterial Thrombosis in a COVID Patient With No Known Comorbidities With Mild Elevation of D-Dimer

Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic started, new challenges have emerged regarding the management of coronavirus-infected patients. One of the most known devastating complications associated with COVID-19 is hypercoagulability. This can lead to severe disability or even death, especially in cr...

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Autores principales: Mekheal, Nader, Roman, Sherif, Michael, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7943694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33717746
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13207
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description Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic started, new challenges have emerged regarding the management of coronavirus-infected patients. One of the most known devastating complications associated with COVID-19 is hypercoagulability. This can lead to severe disability or even death, especially in critically ill patients with known chronic comorbidities such as hypertension (HTN) and diabetes. D-dimer and clinical condition are among the most important tools currently used by clinicians to guide therapy and anticoagulation prophylaxis. Here we present a case of a COVID-19-infected patient with no known comorbidities and mild elevation in initial D-dimer level who had a rapid deterioration ultimately leading to death within weeks of admission.
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spelling pubmed-79436942021-03-12 Multiple Arterial Thrombosis in a COVID Patient With No Known Comorbidities With Mild Elevation of D-Dimer Mekheal, Nader Roman, Sherif Michael, Patrick Cureus Internal Medicine Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic started, new challenges have emerged regarding the management of coronavirus-infected patients. One of the most known devastating complications associated with COVID-19 is hypercoagulability. This can lead to severe disability or even death, especially in critically ill patients with known chronic comorbidities such as hypertension (HTN) and diabetes. D-dimer and clinical condition are among the most important tools currently used by clinicians to guide therapy and anticoagulation prophylaxis. Here we present a case of a COVID-19-infected patient with no known comorbidities and mild elevation in initial D-dimer level who had a rapid deterioration ultimately leading to death within weeks of admission. Cureus 2021-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7943694/ /pubmed/33717746 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13207 Text en Copyright © 2021, Mekheal 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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title Multiple Arterial Thrombosis in a COVID Patient With No Known Comorbidities With Mild Elevation of D-Dimer
title_full Multiple Arterial Thrombosis in a COVID Patient With No Known Comorbidities With Mild Elevation of D-Dimer
title_fullStr Multiple Arterial Thrombosis in a COVID Patient With No Known Comorbidities With Mild Elevation of D-Dimer
title_full_unstemmed Multiple Arterial Thrombosis in a COVID Patient With No Known Comorbidities With Mild Elevation of D-Dimer
title_short Multiple Arterial Thrombosis in a COVID Patient With No Known Comorbidities With Mild Elevation of D-Dimer
title_sort multiple arterial thrombosis in a covid patient with no known comorbidities with mild elevation of d-dimer
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7943694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33717746
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13207
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