Multiple Arterial Thrombosis after COVID-19: A Case Report

Abstract

Since the beginning of severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 pandemic, many reports have pointed to states of incrieased hypercoagulability during the acute phase of the disease. We report a 63-year-old female who developed acute mesenteric ischemia due to celiac trunk and superior mesenteric artery thrombi together with acute lower extremity ischemia caused by saddle embolism of the iliac bifurcation and thrombosis of the left external iliac artery. These thrombi developed 20 days after discharge from an intensive care unit due to severe pneumonia and pulmonary embolism associated with COVID-19. The patient had consecutive interventions. Surgical thrombectomy for aortoiliac thrombosis was performed and the mesenteric thrombosis was treated by percutaneous endovascular intervention. We emphasize that the prothrombotic state after COVID-19 infection may persist long after the acute symptomatic phase.

Keywords

• covid-19
• pulmonary embolism
• mesenteric ischemia
• thromboembolism