Acute Bilateral Femoral Arterial Thrombosis in a Young Adult: A Rare Association With Asymptomatic COVID-19

Thrombotic complications have been well described in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) because of its associated states of hypercoagulability and inflammation. We present a unique case of thrombosis of the femoral artery in a 42-year-old man with asymptomatic COVID-19. This case high...

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Autores principales: Parvez, Yusuf, Khan, Farheen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8148617/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34055521
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14674
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description Thrombotic complications have been well described in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) because of its associated states of hypercoagulability and inflammation. We present a unique case of thrombosis of the femoral artery in a 42-year-old man with asymptomatic COVID-19. This case highlights the need for vigilance when treating patients with COVID-19 to make the necessary diagnostic evaluations and provide appropriate treatment.
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spelling pubmed-81486172021-05-27 Acute Bilateral Femoral Arterial Thrombosis in a Young Adult: A Rare Association With Asymptomatic COVID-19 Parvez, Yusuf Khan, Farheen Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Thrombotic complications have been well described in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) because of its associated states of hypercoagulability and inflammation. We present a unique case of thrombosis of the femoral artery in a 42-year-old man with asymptomatic COVID-19. This case highlights the need for vigilance when treating patients with COVID-19 to make the necessary diagnostic evaluations and provide appropriate treatment. Cureus 2021-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8148617/ /pubmed/34055521 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14674 Text en Copyright © 2021, Parvez et al. https://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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Acute Bilateral Femoral Arterial Thrombosis in a Young Adult: A Rare Association With Asymptomatic COVID-19
title Acute Bilateral Femoral Arterial Thrombosis in a Young Adult: A Rare Association With Asymptomatic COVID-19
title_full Acute Bilateral Femoral Arterial Thrombosis in a Young Adult: A Rare Association With Asymptomatic COVID-19
title_fullStr Acute Bilateral Femoral Arterial Thrombosis in a Young Adult: A Rare Association With Asymptomatic COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Acute Bilateral Femoral Arterial Thrombosis in a Young Adult: A Rare Association With Asymptomatic COVID-19
title_short Acute Bilateral Femoral Arterial Thrombosis in a Young Adult: A Rare Association With Asymptomatic COVID-19
title_sort acute bilateral femoral arterial thrombosis in a young adult: a rare association with asymptomatic covid-19
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8148617/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14674
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