A case report of greater saphenous vein thrombosis in a patient with coronavirus (COVID-19) infection

Abstract In December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a series of pneumonia cases caused by an unknown origin, discovered in Wuhan, China. A dangerous virus called SARS-Cov-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) caused a disease named acute respiratory syndrome, which was later popularly called coronavirus infection (COVID-19). Patients with acute COVID-19 are at high risk for thrombosis in various blood vessels due to over-coagulation, blood stasis, and endothelial damage. To date, very little research has been done on the number and side effects of thromboembolic disorders in patients with COVID-19. In this study, we report a case with COVID-19, who was hospitalized in one of the hospitals in Sanandaj, Iran. There were symptoms of fever, chills, muscle aches, cough, and tachycardia. Laboratory tests such as CRP, ESR, Ferritin CLIA, LDH and D-Dimer were observed in this patient at a high level. Doppler ultrasound of this patient revealed an abnormal finding, thrombosis in the right greater saphenous vein. This suggests that COVID-19 may lead to other side effects through damage to blood vessels.