Mortal disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and cutaneous involvement in a COVID-19 positive patient; case report

Muharrem BAYRAK, Kenan ÇADIRCI
2021 Anatolian Current Medical Journal  
Coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) is a highly deadly disease that hascaused 77 million cases and 1.6 million deaths worldwide. Many cutaneous manifestations are seen withCOVID-19. Cutaneous pathologies, such as vascular endothelial damage, prothrombotic conditions, haemorrhagic cutaneous lesions, vasculitis, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC), ecchymotic skin lesions, purpura and dry gangrene, are seen in patients with COVID-19. While our 84-year-old male patient was being treated
more » ... or COVID-19-related pneumonia in the infection ward, DIC developed on the ninthday of his treatment and widespread petechia, purpura, ecchymosis, necrosis, gangrene and bullous skin lesions were observed onhis left arm related to this. Here, we aimed to present a case of DIC that developed as a complication of a COVID-19 infection and hada mortal course with cutaneous involvement, to the literature.
doi:10.38053/acmj.930047 fatcat:n3ltif2w7ndidp4zvct2rbrr64