Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Therapy

Arterial Thrombosis in an Ambulatory COVID-19 Patient in Recovery

Arterial and venous thrombotic events have increasingly been reported in critically ill patients with COVID-19, however these events are not known to occur in patients who have since recovered from active infection. This is a case report ofan ambulatory patient with a two-week history of COVID-19 infection with resolved respiratory symptoms who presents with acute right lower extremity ischemia secondary to occlusive thrombus in the popliteal artery. During his hospitalization, CT angiography, transthoracic echocardiogram, telemetry and hypercoagulable work-up excluded all other thrombosis resources and his previous COVID-19 infection was noted to be the only possible predisposing factor for this arterial thrombosis event.

Author(s):

Lifen Cao, Kristin Cook, Anjali Ratnathicam, Michael Wilderman, Massimo Napolitano, Gregory Simonian and David O’Connor

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