Priapism for 10 days in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case report

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been linked to thromboembolic complications. Priapism has been reported only once in link to SARS-CoV2. Here we report the second case of priapism in a patient with SARS-CoV2; our case is unique in being that the patient had priapism f...

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Autores principales: Addar, Abdulmalik, Al Fraidi, Omar, Nazer, Ahmed, Althonayan, Naif, Ghazwani, Yahya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33868634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab020
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author Addar, Abdulmalik
Al Fraidi, Omar
Nazer, Ahmed
Althonayan, Naif
Ghazwani, Yahya
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Al Fraidi, Omar
Nazer, Ahmed
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description Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been linked to thromboembolic complications. Priapism has been reported only once in link to SARS-CoV2. Here we report the second case of priapism in a patient with SARS-CoV2; our case is unique in being that the patient had priapism for 10 days while being hospitalized. We discuss potential causes and possible prevention strategies. The patient was managed by aspiration and Phenylephrine injection and achieved detumescence and reported normal erection at 2 weeks follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-80428652021-04-16 Priapism for 10 days in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case report Addar, Abdulmalik Al Fraidi, Omar Nazer, Ahmed Althonayan, Naif Ghazwani, Yahya J Surg Case Rep Case Report Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been linked to thromboembolic complications. Priapism has been reported only once in link to SARS-CoV2. Here we report the second case of priapism in a patient with SARS-CoV2; our case is unique in being that the patient had priapism for 10 days while being hospitalized. We discuss potential causes and possible prevention strategies. The patient was managed by aspiration and Phenylephrine injection and achieved detumescence and reported normal erection at 2 weeks follow-up. Oxford University Press 2021-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8042865/ /pubmed/33868634 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab020 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Addar, Abdulmalik
Al Fraidi, Omar
Nazer, Ahmed
Althonayan, Naif
Ghazwani, Yahya
Priapism for 10 days in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case report
title Priapism for 10 days in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case report
title_full Priapism for 10 days in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case report
title_fullStr Priapism for 10 days in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Priapism for 10 days in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case report
title_short Priapism for 10 days in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case report
title_sort priapism for 10 days in a patient with sars-cov-2 pneumonia: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042865/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33868634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab020
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