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Fountain of Youth or the Trojan Horse: A Case Report of Pulmonary Thromboembolism After Anticoagulant Administration in a COVID-19 Patient

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a serious challenge for health care systems, a challenge which requires taking effective and intensive measures to provide patient care. COVID-19 can cause damages to various organs, including heart, through causing various changes in the inflammatory and coagulation systems. Some cases of cardiac injury can display mistakable signs of myocardial infarction (MI). Cardiac injury can mimic acute conditions such as MI. Case Presentation: In this study, a case of a 33-year-old man with an initial diagnosis of MI by ST-elevation was investigated. He later developed pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) after being treated with fibrinolytic and anticoagulants; after further investigations, however, he was found not afflicted with primary MI. Our findings may have proven useful in demonstrating the unexpected effects of anticoagulants on COVID-19. Conclusion: Miss-diagnosing these cases as well as administrating effective treatment for COVID-19 patients may have posed real risks to the patients and made it difficult to manage them due to the high risk of death and the lack of differential diagnosis of the given patients.

Source: Disease and Diagnosis

DOI: 10.34172/ddj.2023.378

Authors: Soudabe Behrooj, Moazameh Mohammadi Soleimani, Hossein Farshidi, Abdullah Gharibzadeh, Dariush Hooshyar

Institution: Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences

Language: English

Topic: COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences