Daniel, Pascale Raad, Marc Waked, Rami Choucair, Jacques Riachy, Moussa Haddad, Fady
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Introduction The coronavirus disease COVID-19 is considered a pandemic disease that has developed rapidly all over the world. As of today, it is unclear whether immunosuppression confers an increased risk for pulmonary complications, or conversely, whether it can be a protective factor with respect to a cytokine storm. Case description We report th...
Saleh, Ahmed Osman Al-Shokri, Shaikha D Ahmed, Ashraf OE Musa, Ahmed Elmustafa Mohamed, Mouhand FH
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome virus coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A few published cases have linked COVID-19 and hyponatremia. The mechanism of hyponatremia in these cases is related to the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic horm...
Burgi Vieira, César Ferreira, Ana Teresa Botelho Cardoso, Filipa Pelicano Paulos, Jorge Germano, Nuno
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Background Kawasaki-like syndrome occurring in children during the COVID-19 pandemic has been labelled multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) by the CDC and paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection (PIMS-TS) by the ECDC. Case report We report the case of an 18-year-old male patient ...
Tuaima, Tareq Kinsara, Abdulhalim J Alrajawi, Amtalkhaliq Allam, Hassan H Alfakih, Shadwan
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
The effect of COVID-19 on the cardiovascular system still needs to be clarified. Patients can develop a spectrum of cardiac diseases, from mild myocarditis to acute coronary syndrome with an impaired systolic fraction. We describe an interesting case of transient ST segment elevation in a COVID-19 patient admitted to ICU for severe respiratory dist...
Amaral, Pedro HF Ferreira, Bernadete MC Roll, Sergio Neves, Precil DMM Pivetta, Luca GA Mohrbacher, Sara Dias, Eduardo RM Sato, Victor AH Oliveira, Érico S Pereira, Leonardo VB
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
COVID-19 is a severe disease that has reached pandemic status. To the best of our knowledge, we describe the first case of COVID-19 and cytomegalovirus (CMV) co-infection in a critically ill patient. We discuss the challenge of establishing the diagnosis as well as the management of tissue-invasive gastrointestinal CMV infection (TI-GI CMV) simulat...
Lessiani, Gianfranco Boccatonda, Andrea D’Ardes, Damiano Cocco, Giulio Di Marco, Giuseppe Schiavone, Cosima
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
SARS-CoV-2 causes blood hypercoagulability and severe inflammation resulting in an increased risk of thrombosis. Consequently, COVID-19 patients with cardiovascular disease seem to be at higher risk of adverse events. Mondor’s disease is a rare, generally self-limiting, thrombosis of the penis. The pathogenesis of Mondor’s disease is unknown, and i...
Maadarani, Ossama Bitar, Zouheir Zaalouk, Tamer Mohsen, Mohammad Elshabasy, Ragab
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a real-time bedside tool used by physicians to guide rapid, focused and accurate evaluation in order to identify or rule ou...
Meyre, Pascal B Radosavac, Milos Baumann, Lukas Piso, Rein Jan Hoffmann, Matthias
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presents with a wide range of illness severity, from asymptomatic disease to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Immunosuppression is considered a risk factor for severe COVID-19, but there are only few reports on disease progression in immunocompromised patients. Case Summary We report ...
Murillo, Franco Ramos, Gastón del Pozo, José Luis Valdez, Luis Manuel Zagaceta, Jorge
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
We describe a patient with SARS-CoV-2 and severe pneumonia who required mechanical ventilation and developed associated rhabdomyolysis with probable myocardial involvement as evidenced by cardiac enzyme abnormalities and echocardiographic findings. Repeat testing should be done in cases highly suspicious for SARS-CoV-2 as initial molecular tests ma...
Mastroianni, François Colombie, Vincent Claes, Geraldine Gilles, Axelle Vandergheynst, Frédéric Place, Sammy
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Hydroxychloroquine has been used worldwide as a first-line treatment for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Little is known about COVID-19 and its effects on patients with congenital red blood cell disorders. We report a case of haemolytic anaemia in a 32-year-old patient and a fortuitous highlighting of G6PD deficiency. We reviewed the literatur...
