Autoimmune heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: a rare manifestation of COVID-19.


Journal

BMJ case reports
ISSN: 1757-790X
Titre abrégé: BMJ Case Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101526291

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
24 May 2021
Historique:
entrez: 25 5 2021
pubmed: 26 5 2021
medline: 28 5 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

We describe the case of a 65-year-old male who presented to an outside hospital for shortness of breath, nausea and vomiting 8 days after testing positive for COVID-19. Initial workup revealed massive bilateral pulmonary emboli and thrombocytopenia. The patient was then admitted to our hospital, received an inferior vena cava filter and initially started on argatroban for autoimmune heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) prophylaxis. On hospital stay day 6, labs revealed a diagnosis of HIT in the setting of COVID-19. This case highlights the rare occurrence of a patient developing HIT without heparin exposure and in the setting of a novel infectious agent, COVID-19.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34031097
pii: 14/5/e243315
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-243315
pmc: PMC8149303
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Anticoagulants 0
Pipecolic Acids 0
Heparin 9005-49-6

Types de publication

Case Reports Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Informations de copyright

© BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2021. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Competing interests: None declared.

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Auteurs

Katherine Julian (K)

Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA kjulian1@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.

Donald Bucher (D)

Department of Internal Medicine, Penn State Health Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.

Rohit Jain (R)

Department of Internal Medicine, Penn State Health Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.

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