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Editor, Senior Moderator
Cureus
. 2022 Feb 15;14(2):e22226.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.22226. eCollection 2022 Feb.
COVID-19 Aortitis: A Review of Published Cases
Falah Abu Hassan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Minas Abu Alhalawa[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Yacoub Majdoubeh[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Ashish Nepal[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sareen S Sufan[SUP] 5 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a myriad of different presentations and various complications. Aortitis is one of the less explored pathologies associated with COVID-19 infections. In this review, we searched PubMed/Medline, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Scopus for case series and case reports involving adults patients who presented with aortitis and COVID-19. We found and reviewed four published case reports of aortitis in a setting of COVID-19 infection. The mean age of the four adult patients was 69 ± 1.732 years (range = 63-71 years), and all patients were males. Most of the patients (75%) did not have any preexisting comorbidities. All patients were treated conservatively and recovered with excellent outcomes.
Keywords: case review; covid-19; covid-19 complications; infectious aortitis; systematic literature review.
. 2022 Feb 15;14(2):e22226.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.22226. eCollection 2022 Feb.
COVID-19 Aortitis: A Review of Published Cases
Falah Abu Hassan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Minas Abu Alhalawa[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Yacoub Majdoubeh[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Ashish Nepal[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sareen S Sufan[SUP] 5 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 35340464
- PMCID: PMC8928452
- DOI: 10.7759/cureus.22226
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a myriad of different presentations and various complications. Aortitis is one of the less explored pathologies associated with COVID-19 infections. In this review, we searched PubMed/Medline, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Scopus for case series and case reports involving adults patients who presented with aortitis and COVID-19. We found and reviewed four published case reports of aortitis in a setting of COVID-19 infection. The mean age of the four adult patients was 69 ± 1.732 years (range = 63-71 years), and all patients were males. Most of the patients (75%) did not have any preexisting comorbidities. All patients were treated conservatively and recovered with excellent outcomes.
Keywords: case review; covid-19; covid-19 complications; infectious aortitis; systematic literature review.