Acute upper limb ischemia as the first manifestation in a patient with COVID-19

Tony Shao; Christina In-Bok Lee; Sinan Jabori; Jorge Rey; Elizabeth Ramos Duran; Naixin Kang

doi:10.1016/j.jvscit.2020.08.003

Acute upper limb ischemia as the first manifestation in a patient with COVID-19

J Vasc Surg Cases Innov Tech. 2020 Dec;6(4):674-677. doi: 10.1016/j.jvscit.2020.08.003. Epub 2020 Aug 21.

Authors

Tony Shao¹, Christina In-Bok Lee¹, Sinan Jabori¹, Jorge Rey¹, Elizabeth Ramos Duran¹, Naixin Kang¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Fla.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) first emerged in December 2019 in China and rapidly spread worldwide. Although various studies have reported that COVID-19 is associated with a hypercoagulable state and thrombotic complications in critically ill patients, there are few case reports on thrombotic events as one of the presenting symptoms. We report a case of acute upper extremity ischemia as the initial clinical presentation of a patient with COVID-19.

Keywords: Acute limb ischemia; Anticoagulation; COVID-19; Coronavirus; Hypercoagulable state.

Publication types

Case Reports