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BACKGROUND: Pregnancy seems to increase the risk of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) relapses and make the TTP more severe in any of the pregnancy trimesters, or even during the postpartum period. CASE PRESENTATION: This study highlights details of treating a COVID-19 pregnant patient who survived. This 21-year addicted White woman was admitted at her 29th week and delivered a stillbirth. She was transferred to another hospital after showing signs of TTP, which was caused by a viral infection. CONCLUSION: This viral infection caused fever and dyspnea, and the patient was tested positive for COVID-19 infection. A chest computed tomography scan showed diffuse multiple bilateral consolidations and interlobar septal thickening. She stayed at the Intensive Care Unit for 20 days and treated with plasmapheresis. As far as we know, this is the first report of a TTP pregnant patient with COVID-19 infection.
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COVID-19/diagnosis , Plasmapheresis , Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic/diagnosis , Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/diagnosis , Purpura, Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic/diagnosis , Stillbirth , Acute Kidney Injury/therapy , Amphetamine-Related Disorders , Antiviral Agents/therapeutic use , COVID-19/therapy , Drug Combinations , Erythrocyte Transfusion , Female , Hemoglobins/metabolism , Humans , Hydroxychloroquine/therapeutic use , Intensive Care Units , L-Lactate Dehydrogenase/metabolism , Lopinavir/therapeutic use , Methamphetamine , Pregnancy , Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic/metabolism , Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic/therapy , Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/metabolism , Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/therapy , Purpura, Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic/metabolism , Purpura, Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic/therapy , Renal Dialysis , Ritonavir/therapeutic use , SARS-CoV-2 , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Young AdultABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: The world's understanding of COVID-19 continues to evolve as the scientific community discovers unique presentations of this disease. This case report depicts an unexpected intraoperative coagulopathy during a cesarean section in an otherwise asymptomatic patient who was later found to have COVID-19. This case suggests that there may be a higher risk for intrapartum bleeding in the pregnant, largely asymptomatic COVID-positive patient with more abnormal COVID laboratory values. CASE: The case patient displayed D-Dimer elevations beyond what is typically observed among this hospital's COVID-positive peripartum population and displayed significantly more oozing than expected intraoperatively, despite normal prothrombin time, international normalized ratio, fibrinogen, and platelets. CONCLUSION: There is little published evidence on the association between D-Dimer and coagulopathy among the pregnant population infected with SARS-CoV-2. This case report contributes to the growing body of evidence on the effects of COVID-19 in pregnancy. A clinical picture concerning for intraoperative coagulopathy may be associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection during cesarean sections, and abnormal COVID laboratory tests, particularly D-Dimer, may help identify the patients in which this presentation occurs.