A giant spontaneous subcapsular hematoma of the liver revealing a COVID-19 infection, a coincidence? (A case report)

Abstract

Hemorrhagic manifestations during COVID-19 infections are increasingly described in the literature. We report the first case of spontaneous subcapsular hematoma of the liver revealing a COVID-19 infection in a 44-year-old woman with no underlying health condition history, a computerized tomography evaluation showed an aspect of lung ground-glass opacities, with moderate impairment estimated about 20%. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction confirmed the diagnosis of COVID-19 infection. During the covid-19 pandemic, non-traumatic bleeding such as spontaneous hematomas in patients with no coagulation disorder could be a manifestation of COVID-19 infection.

Keywords

• sars-cov-2
• infectious
• pandemic
• hemorrhage
• angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
• north-africa