Acute pulmonary embolism in a child following SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report

In children, coronavirus disease 2019 infection is rarely symptomatic. Severe forms with respiratory distress are rare, thromboembolic complications are exceptional. We report a rare case of a 14 years old girl with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection who was admit...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ouarradi, Amal El, Chekhlabi, Nabila, Elharras, Mahassine, Bensahi, Ilham, Oualim, Sara, Merzouk, Fatimazahr, Abdeladim, Salma, Sabry, Mohammed, Dini, Nouzha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8051227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912295
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.125.27954
_version_ 1783679715984277504
author Ouarradi, Amal El
Chekhlabi, Nabila
Elharras, Mahassine
Bensahi, Ilham
Oualim, Sara
Merzouk, Fatimazahr
Abdeladim, Salma
Sabry, Mohammed
Dini, Nouzha
author_facet Ouarradi, Amal El
Chekhlabi, Nabila
Elharras, Mahassine
Bensahi, Ilham
Oualim, Sara
Merzouk, Fatimazahr
Abdeladim, Salma
Sabry, Mohammed
Dini, Nouzha
author_sort Ouarradi, Amal El
collection PubMed
description In children, coronavirus disease 2019 infection is rarely symptomatic. Severe forms with respiratory distress are rare, thromboembolic complications are exceptional. We report a rare case of a 14 years old girl with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection who was admitted to the hospital for bilateral pulmonary embolism with intracardiac thrombus. The girl progressed well on anticoagulation.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8051227
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher The African Field Epidemiology Network
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-80512272021-04-27 Acute pulmonary embolism in a child following SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report Ouarradi, Amal El Chekhlabi, Nabila Elharras, Mahassine Bensahi, Ilham Oualim, Sara Merzouk, Fatimazahr Abdeladim, Salma Sabry, Mohammed Dini, Nouzha Pan Afr Med J Case Report In children, coronavirus disease 2019 infection is rarely symptomatic. Severe forms with respiratory distress are rare, thromboembolic complications are exceptional. We report a rare case of a 14 years old girl with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection who was admitted to the hospital for bilateral pulmonary embolism with intracardiac thrombus. The girl progressed well on anticoagulation. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8051227/ /pubmed/33912295 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.125.27954 Text en Copyright: Amal El Ouarradi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Ouarradi, Amal El
Chekhlabi, Nabila
Elharras, Mahassine
Bensahi, Ilham
Oualim, Sara
Merzouk, Fatimazahr
Abdeladim, Salma
Sabry, Mohammed
Dini, Nouzha
Acute pulmonary embolism in a child following SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report
title Acute pulmonary embolism in a child following SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report
title_full Acute pulmonary embolism in a child following SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report
title_fullStr Acute pulmonary embolism in a child following SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Acute pulmonary embolism in a child following SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report
title_short Acute pulmonary embolism in a child following SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report
title_sort acute pulmonary embolism in a child following sars-cov-2 infection: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8051227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912295
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.125.27954
work_keys_str_mv AT ouarradiamalel acutepulmonaryembolisminachildfollowingsarscov2infectionacasereport
AT chekhlabinabila acutepulmonaryembolisminachildfollowingsarscov2infectionacasereport
AT elharrasmahassine acutepulmonaryembolisminachildfollowingsarscov2infectionacasereport
AT bensahiilham acutepulmonaryembolisminachildfollowingsarscov2infectionacasereport
AT oualimsara acutepulmonaryembolisminachildfollowingsarscov2infectionacasereport
AT merzoukfatimazahr acutepulmonaryembolisminachildfollowingsarscov2infectionacasereport
AT abdeladimsalma acutepulmonaryembolisminachildfollowingsarscov2infectionacasereport
AT sabrymohammed acutepulmonaryembolisminachildfollowingsarscov2infectionacasereport
AT dininouzha acutepulmonaryembolisminachildfollowingsarscov2infectionacasereport

Ejemplares similares