Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (Jan 2021)

Fifty Shades of COVID-19 – Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura in HIV-TB-COVID Co-Infection

  • Rohit Kumar,
  • Saurav Sekhar Paul,
  • Ved Prakash Meena,
  • Pavan Tiwari,
  • Sushma Bhatnagar,
  • Anant Mohan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1939_20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 7
pp. 2703 – 2705

Abstract

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SARS CoV-2 infection is associated with various hematological manifestations, including leucopenia, thrombocytopenia, thrombocytopenia. Severe thrombocytopenia is, however, rare and is associated with severe COVID-19. ITP remains an important differential among other causes. We report a case of HIV-TB-COVID-19 co-infection, without any feature of severe COVID, presenting with severe thrombocytopenia which resolved on its own; cause was attributed to immune-mediated effect of SARS CoV-2 virus.

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