Large sacral/buttocks ulcerations in the setting of coagulopathy: A case series establishing the skin as a target organ of significant damage and potential morbidity in patients with severe COVID-19

Int Wound J. 2020 Dec;17(6):2033-2037. doi: 10.1111/iwj.13457. Epub 2020 Aug 7.

Authors

Sarah Young¹, Jatin Narang², Sany Kumar³, Elise Kwizera⁴, Priya Malik⁴, Steven D Billings^{1

5}, Jennifer S Ko^{1

5}, Anthony P Fernandez^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
² Department of Medical Education, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁴ Department of Hospital Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁵ Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Blood Coagulation Disorders / complications*
Buttocks
COVID-19 / complications*
COVID-19 / epidemiology
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Morbidity / trends
Pandemics
Posture
Pressure Ulcer / diagnosis*
Pressure Ulcer / epidemiology
Pressure Ulcer / etiology
SARS-CoV-2
Skin / pathology*