COVID-19: Spleen Involvement or Coincidence
Received Date: Feb 02, 2021 / Accepted Date: Feb 16, 2021 / Published Date: Feb 23, 2021
Abstract
A 62-year-old man presented a history of fever, cough, left thoracic pain, left hypochondrium discomfort, asthenia and anorexia for the past week. He had lost 6 Kg in the past month. His TAP CT revealed extensive densification of the left lung lower lobe and a spleen enlargement of 22 cm in its longitudinal axis. He presented anaemia, lymphopenia, elevated CRP and LDH. He had a SARS-CoV-2 positive test, Streptococcus pneumoniae positive urinary serology and blood culture. 20 days later he repeated his TAP CT showing pneumonia imaging evolution and a 21 cm spleen longitudinal axis and one month later he repeated an abdominal US revealing a 17.7 cm diameter spleen. HBV, HCV, HIV, EBV and CMV serologies were negative. Bone marrow immunophenotyping suggested splenic marginal zone lymphoma.
Keywords: Splenomegaly; Spleen; Lymphoma; COVID-19
Citation: Costa M, Formigo M, Bessa I, Sarmento H, Cotter J (2021) COVID-19: Spleen Involvement or Coincidence. J Infect Dis Ther S1: 001. Doi: 10.4172/2165-7386.s1.10001
Copyright: © 2021 Costa M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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