Acute Lower Limb Ischemia during Covid 19 Infection, a Worrying Complication!
Admittedly, the respiratory picture remains the most classic, however, covid 19 is lately considered to be a vasculitis affecting several organs, and therefore which is the origin of other extra-pulmonary manifestations, in particular thromboembolic disease (both venous and arterial) which has increasingly become a dramatic complication to be feared during this pandemic, due to its negative impact on the prognosis of affected patients, increasing the need for a resuscitation environment and the death rate.
The mechanism is multifactorial, associating endothelial damage, an abnormality of hemostasis, and immunothrobosis .
We report the case of a 52-year-old young patient who had an acute ischemia of his left lower limb, by embolization of a thrombus located in the left ventricle, during his involvement by covid 19 and who was taken in charge immediately.
The interest of this observation is to shed light on this complication which often accompanies infection by covid 19, which has become, not only a respiratory disease, but also a vasculiritis with its significant risk of thromboembolism.
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