Chalela Rengifo, Roberto José, 1985-Caguana Vélez, Oswaldo AntonioZuccarino, FlavioKhilzi, KarysRodríguez-Chiaradía, Diego A2022-02-252022-02-252020Chalela R, Caguana O, Zuccarino F, Khilzi K, Rodríguez-Chiaradía DA. Case report on a patient with steinert disease complicated by COVID-19. Vasc Health Risk Manag. 2020 Nov 20;16:463-6. DOI: 10.2147/VHRM.S2666591176-6344http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52577SARS-CoV-2 infection is predominantly a respiratory disease with a diverse clinical spectrum. Pulmonary thromboembolic complications during COVID-19 pneumonia may be associated with a high mortality rate and post-mortem findings confirm the presence of platelet-fibrin thrombi in arterial vessels of patients together with lung tissue alterations. We present a patient transferred to the emergency department due to a syncope with no other associated symptoms, who was diagnosed with an acute pulmonary embolism (PE) concomitant with SARS-CoV-2 infection without lung infiltrates. Presenting with a PE as the only manifestation of this infection, reinforces our conception of COVID-19 as a heterogeneous disease of which we still know very little. We believe that while the virus is still circulating in our environment, we need to consider ruling out COVID-19 in all thrombotic events, even if the patients have no other risk factors.application/pdfengCopyright © 2020 Chalela et al. This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.2147/VHRM.S266659COVID-19SARS-CoV-2PandemicPulmonary embolismSyncopeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess