Life-threatening COVID-19 presenting as stroke with antiphospholipid antibodies and low ADAMTS-13 activity, and the role of therapeutic plasma exchange: A case series.

ADAMTS-13 activity COVID-19 antiphospholipid antibodies artificial plasma brain infarction therapeutic plasma exchange

Journal

SAGE open medical case reports
ISSN: 2050-313X
Titre abrégé: SAGE Open Med Case Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101638686

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 27 07 2020
accepted: 10 09 2020
entrez: 26 10 2020
pubmed: 27 10 2020
medline: 27 10 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

We present a case series of three patients with COVID-19 who were admitted to our intensive care unit due to acute respiratory distress syndrome, brain infarction, pulmonary embolism, and antiphospholipid antibodies. We applied therapeutic plasma exchange on all cases. On intensive care unit admission, all patients had low (<10) Glasgow Coma Scale, and central nervous imaging showed multiple brain infarctions. COVID-19 was confirmed by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assays. Patients underwent rescue therapeutic plasma exchange using the Spectra Optia

Identifiants

pubmed: 33101686
doi: 10.1177/2050313X20964089
pii: 10.1177_2050313X20964089
pmc: PMC7550946
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

2050313X20964089

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s) 2020.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Auteurs

Abdulrahman Alharthy (A)

Critical Care Department, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Fahad Faqihi (F)

Critical Care Department, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Abdullah Balhamar (A)

Critical Care Department, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Ziad A Memish (ZA)

Research and Innovation Center, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Dimitrios Karakitsos (D)

Critical Care Department, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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