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Case Reports
. 2023 Mar 28;12(7):2552.
doi: 10.3390/jcm12072552.

Is COVID-19 All That Glitters?

Salvatore Spampinato  1 , Maurizio Di Marco  1 , Luciano Mammolito  1 , Alessia Scarfia  1 , Maurizio Valastro  2 , Stefania Di Mauro  1 , Giosiana Bosco  1 , Francesco Purrello  1 , Salvatore Piro  1
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Case Reports

Is COVID-19 All That Glitters?

Salvatore Spampinato et al. J Clin Med. .

Abstract

Over the last three years, the Coronavirus-19 disease has been a global health emergency, playing a primary role in the international scientific community. Clinical activity and scientific research have concentrated their efforts on facing the pandemic, allowing the description of novel pathologies correlated to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), such as the Multisystemic Inflammatory Syndrome in Children and Adults (MIS-C, MIS-A). Conversely, this shift of attention to COVID-19 disease and its complications could, in some cases, have delayed and underestimated the diagnosis of diseases not associated with SARS-CoV-2, including rare diseases. Here we describe the diagnostic process that led to the definition of a rare vasculitis in a young woman with a recent clinical history of SARS-CoV-2.

Keywords: COVID-19; MIS-C; SARS-CoV-2 infection; Takayasu arteritis; large vessels vasculitis; pandemic.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Figure 1
CT scan of the abdomen. Proximal occlusion of the superior mesenteric artery (AMS).
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PET-TC. Increased metabolic activity of the ascendent aorta.
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Figure 3
PET-CT. Increased metabolic activity of the suprarenal abdominal aorta.
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