HELLP Syndrome and COVID-19; association or accident: A case series

Partial Hemolysis, elevation of liver enzymes and low platelet count (HELLP) syndrome is a leading cause of maternal mortality. With the exceeding spread of COVID-19, leading to increasing number of COVID-19 infected cases there has been a emergence of an overlap of COVID-19 with HELLP Syndrome. Mul...

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Autores principales: Madaan, Sparsh, Talwar, Dhruv, Kumar, Sunil, Jaiswal, Arpita, Acharya, Neema, Acharya, Sourya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8963628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35360752
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1136_21
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Sumario:Partial Hemolysis, elevation of liver enzymes and low platelet count (HELLP) syndrome is a leading cause of maternal mortality. With the exceeding spread of COVID-19, leading to increasing number of COVID-19 infected cases there has been a emergence of an overlap of COVID-19 with HELLP Syndrome. Multiple factors are associated with the thrombocytopenia witnessed in COVID-19 somewhat similar to what is witnessed in preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome. We Describe a case series of two ante natal cases who presented with a picture of HELLP syndrome and upon investigations turned out to be COVID-19 thus trying to establish an association between the two.

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