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- Title
Rectus Sheath Hematoma After Prophylactic Subcutaneous Enoxaparin Treatment in a COVID-19 Patient.
- Authors
Bayrak, Muharrem; Cadirci, Kenan; Kahraman, Mustafa
- Abstract
COVID-19 is a disease that causes microvascular thrombosis with respiratory failure. Anticoagulant treatments sometimes cause life-threatening gastrointestinal, intracranial, and abdominal bleeding. A 68-year-old male patient was admitted to the infectious diseases service because the COVID-19 PCR-RT test performed in the emergency department was positive and it was compatible with COVID-19 pneumonia on thoracic tomography. Prophylactic subcutaneous enoxaparin treatment was initiated considering that the patient would have a high risk of microvascular thrombosis due to hypertension and coronary artery disease. On the 10th day of his treatment, the patient whose general condition was deteriorated and had severe abdominal pain, hemoglobin was 6.4 mg/dl in the hemoglobin examination performed for diagnosis, and a diagnosis of hematoma spreading to the pelvis starting from the rectus sheath of 15×11×14 cm was made in abdominal tomography.
- Subjects
COVID-19; COVID-19 treatment; GASTROINTESTINAL hemorrhage; CORONARY artery disease; ENOXAPARIN; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Kafkas Journal of Medical Sciences / Kafkas Tıp Bilimleri Dergisi, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 2, p328
- ISSN
2146-2631
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5505/kjms.2021.80000