Case Report on a Patient with Steinert Disease Complicated by COVID-19

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 infection is predominantly a respiratory disease with a diverse clinical spectrum. Pulmonary thromboembolic complications during COVID-19 pneumonia may be associated with a high mortality rate and post-mortem findings confirm the presence of platelet-fibrin thrombi in arterial vessels of patients together with lung tissue alterations. We present a patient transferred to the emergency department due to a syncope with no other associated symptoms, who was diagnosed with an acute pulmonary embolism (PE) concomitant with SARS-CoV-2 infection without lung infiltrates. Presenting with a PE as the only manifestation of this infection, reinforces our conception of COVID-19 as a heterogeneous disease of which we still know very little. We believe that while the virus is still circulating in our environment, we need to consider ruling out COVID-19 in all thrombotic events, even if the patients have no other risk factors.

Keywords:

• COVID-19
• SARS-CoV-2
• pulmonary embolism
• syncope
• pandemic

Consent

Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for this case report and any accompanying images to be published. Institutional approval was not required to publish the case details.

Disclosure

The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.