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Editor, Senior Moderator
SAGE Open Med Case Rep
. 2021 Dec 23;9:2050313X211067907.
doi: 10.1177/2050313X211067907. eCollection 2021.
Unexpected tendency to bleeding in COVID-19 patients: A case of spontaneous retroperitoneal hematoma
Mert Tanal[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mustafa Fevzi Celayir[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Zulfiye Sumeyye Kale[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
While COVID-19 pandemic has become an enormous and devastating pandemic for today's world, studies on the morbidity of the disease mainly show the disease's progress with pneumonia and thromboembolic pathologies. In this disease with a predisposition to thromboembolism, findings of nontraumatic focused hemorrhages are unexpected. As spontaneous retroperitoneal hematoma is a serious condition with the absence of symptoms, creating a challenge for diagnosis, it should also be considered in COVID-19 which is thought to be predisposed to thromboembolism. Here, a 47-year-old woman with COVID-19 pneumonia diagnosis (diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) scan and approved by nasopharyngeal swab test) is presented with spontaneous retroperitoneal hematoma, and its management is reported. This case highlights the importance of considering both thromboembolic events and bleeding in cases with COVID-19 positivity. The balance between two sides of clotting mechanisms needs to be understood with novel research.
Keywords: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19); pneumonia; retroperitoneal hematoma; thromboembolism.
. 2021 Dec 23;9:2050313X211067907.
doi: 10.1177/2050313X211067907. eCollection 2021.
Unexpected tendency to bleeding in COVID-19 patients: A case of spontaneous retroperitoneal hematoma
Mert Tanal[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mustafa Fevzi Celayir[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Zulfiye Sumeyye Kale[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 34987821
- PMCID: PMC8721400
- DOI: 10.1177/2050313X211067907
Abstract
While COVID-19 pandemic has become an enormous and devastating pandemic for today's world, studies on the morbidity of the disease mainly show the disease's progress with pneumonia and thromboembolic pathologies. In this disease with a predisposition to thromboembolism, findings of nontraumatic focused hemorrhages are unexpected. As spontaneous retroperitoneal hematoma is a serious condition with the absence of symptoms, creating a challenge for diagnosis, it should also be considered in COVID-19 which is thought to be predisposed to thromboembolism. Here, a 47-year-old woman with COVID-19 pneumonia diagnosis (diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) scan and approved by nasopharyngeal swab test) is presented with spontaneous retroperitoneal hematoma, and its management is reported. This case highlights the importance of considering both thromboembolic events and bleeding in cases with COVID-19 positivity. The balance between two sides of clotting mechanisms needs to be understood with novel research.
Keywords: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19); pneumonia; retroperitoneal hematoma; thromboembolism.