Atypical COVID-19 presentation with Budd-Chiari syndrome leading to an outbreak in the emergency department.

Am J Emerg Med

Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, São Paulo University, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Electronic address:

Published: August 2021

We described a case report of a 50 years-old-woman admitted to the emergency department with abdominal pain associated with febrile hepatosplenomegaly with the final diagnosis of suprahepatic vein thrombosis secondary to COVID-19. Initially, this patient stayed out of a private room because of this atypical presentation and caused a COVID-19 outbreak in the emergency department.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2021.01.090DOI Listing

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