Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 2021; 117(5): 1045-1047
Aortic and Renal Artery Thrombosis as the First Clinical Manifestation of COVID-19 in a Heart Transplant Recipient
Deborah de Sá Pereira Belfort
, Fabiana G. Marcondes-Braga
, Sandrigo Mangini
, Caio Rebouças Fonseca Cafezeiro
, Diógenes Amauri Gonçalves Furlan, Fernando Bacal
Introduction
The novel coronavirus infection emerged in Wuhan, China, in the end of 2019 and is now a pandemic. The relation between COVID-19 and thrombotic events is well established, even for patients under prophylactic anticoagulation. Although venous and arterial thromboembolic events have been described, usually stroke and acute myocardial infarction (AMI),, there are few reports of arterial thrombosis in unusual sites. Almost all reports of thrombotic events are of intensive care unit (ICU) patients, and the incidence of thromboembolism in mild cases of COVID-19 is still not clear.
We report a case of a male heart transplant recipient admitted to emergency department with thrombosis of right renal artery and thoracic descending aorta associated with COVID-19.
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Keywords: COVID-19; Heart Transplantation; Thromboembolism
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