Adenovirus-Associated Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

Authors

Syed Ather Hussain, Rochester Regional HealthFollow
Aneeqa Zafar, El Camino Hospital
Hafsa Faisal, Rochester Regional HealthFollow
Olga Vasylyeva, Rochester Regional HealthFollow
Farhan Imran, Rochester Regional HealthFollow

Department

Internal Medicine

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Cureus

Abstract

A 21-year-old previously healthy Caucasian female presented to the emergency department (ED) in the pre-COVID-19 era for evaluation of thrombocytopenia after a flu-like illness. The patient reported fever, cough, headache and myalgias for one week. She was on oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) for five years but discontinued one week ago. She was found to be in disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and her hospital course was complicated by intraparenchymal hemorrhage, deep vein thrombus (DVT) in the right arm veins, bilateral pulmonary embolus (PE) and multiple splenic infarcts. An extensive workup was negative but nasopharyngeal swab came back positive for adenovirus by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

DOI

10.7759/cureus.14194

Volume

13

Issue

3

Publication Date

3-30-2021

Recommended Citation

Hussain, S. A., Zafar, A., Faisal, H., Vasylyeva, O., & Imran, F. (2021). Adenovirus-Associated Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. Cureus, 13 (3) https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14194