COVID-19 presenting as COVID - Clot obstructing vessels in deep

Monisha Anandhan; KM Aishwarya; Mohammed Shafi Abdulsalam; V Balaji; R Narasimhan

doi:10.4103/WKMP-0215.309224

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Year : 2020 \| Volume : 3 \| Issue : 2 \| Page : 98-102

COVID-19 presenting as COVID - Clot obstructing vessels in deep Monisha Anandhan¹, KM Aishwarya², Mohammed Shafi Abdulsalam³, V Balaji⁴, R Narasimhan⁵ ¹ Post Graduate-Department of Respiratory Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai, India ² Post Graduate-Department of Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai, India ³ Junior Consultant Department of Medicine/Hematolgy, Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai, India ⁴ Senior Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai, India ⁵ Senior Consultant Pulmonologist, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai, India Correspondence Address: R Narasimhan Senior Consultant Pulmonologist, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai India Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/WKMP-0215.309224

Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19), a global health emergency shows a wide spectrum of clinical presentations and manifestations with dry cough, fever and shortness of breath being the most common symptoms. Available evidences shows that COVID-19 can be complicated by thrombotic manifestations. High index of clinical suspicion and early initiation of prophylactic or therapeutic dose of anti-coagulants is needed to prevent the occurrence of life-threatening thrombosis. We hereby present two cases of COVID-19 which had thrombosis at the time of initial presentation itself.



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