An unusual clinical manifestation of coronavirus disease 2019 in a woman with twin pregnancy: a case report
Open Access
- 19 April 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Medical Case Reports
- Vol. 16 (1), 1-5
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13256-022-03377-9
Abstract
Although coronavirus disease 2019 affects mainly the respiratory system, as time passes and our understanding of the disease improves, many nonrespiratory clinical manifestations such as thromboembolic events have been shown to occur with or without respiratory tract involvement. We present the case of a 21-year-old gravid 3, live 1, abortion 1 Iranian woman pregnant with twins in her early first trimester. Her initial chief complaint was headache that gradually increased in intensity. Eventually, cerebral vein thrombosis was confirmed. Although the patient first manifested with neurological involvement, she developed upper respiratory symptoms soon after, and then nasopharyngeal polymerase chain reaction test returned positive. Any neurological complaints in pregnant women during the current coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic should raise suspicion for the presence of significant cerebral thrombotic or ischemic events, even if the patient has no complaint of respiratory tract involvement and/or when an initial nasopharyngeal polymerase chain reaction test is negative.Keywords
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