Pericarditis complicating COVID-19 infection: a report of two cases

COVID-19 infection is responsible for many complications, which can lead to a high risk of mortality. Respiratory manifestations are the most encountered, while that cardiovascular complications are classified as the most severe. We report two cases of COVID-19 infection complicated by pericarditis....

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Autores principales: Mir, Zainab El, Rasras, Hammam, Brem, Falmata Laouan, Bazid, Zakaria, Ismaili, Nabila, Ouafi, Noha El
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9167472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35721653
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.41.229.28816
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author Mir, Zainab El
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Brem, Falmata Laouan
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description COVID-19 infection is responsible for many complications, which can lead to a high risk of mortality. Respiratory manifestations are the most encountered, while that cardiovascular complications are classified as the most severe. We report two cases of COVID-19 infection complicated by pericarditis. In the absence of other etiology of pericarditis, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was considered as the behind cause. The treatment in these two cases was corticosteroids with colchicine, with good outcomes. In the presence of any cardiovascular symptoms, pericarditis related to COVID-19 should be suspected, in order to act swiftly and avoid complications as well as contamination.
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spelling pubmed-91674722022-06-17 Pericarditis complicating COVID-19 infection: a report of two cases Mir, Zainab El Rasras, Hammam Brem, Falmata Laouan Bazid, Zakaria Ismaili, Nabila Ouafi, Noha El Pan Afr Med J Case Report COVID-19 infection is responsible for many complications, which can lead to a high risk of mortality. Respiratory manifestations are the most encountered, while that cardiovascular complications are classified as the most severe. We report two cases of COVID-19 infection complicated by pericarditis. In the absence of other etiology of pericarditis, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was considered as the behind cause. The treatment in these two cases was corticosteroids with colchicine, with good outcomes. In the presence of any cardiovascular symptoms, pericarditis related to COVID-19 should be suspected, in order to act swiftly and avoid complications as well as contamination. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9167472/ /pubmed/35721653 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.41.229.28816 Text en Copyright: Zainab El Mir 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.
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title_full Pericarditis complicating COVID-19 infection: a report of two cases
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title_short Pericarditis complicating COVID-19 infection: a report of two cases
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35721653
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.41.229.28816
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