A postpartum septic case: Differential diagnosis of COVID-19 infection and urosepsis.

Year 2021, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 50 - 52, 25.06.2021

Müjde Can İbanoğlu , Ayse Gulcin Bastemur Harun Karaağaç , Ertan Akpınar Aslıhan Kara Ayşe Özcan , Ömer Lütfi Tapısız , Yaprak Ustun

https://doi.org/10.46969/ezh.835911

Abstract

First identified in Wuhan of China, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory tract infection with a
global public health emergency. Data regarding COVID-19 in pregnancy is limited, consisting of case reports and small
cohort studies. Postpartum urosepsis is also a globally common disease and well documented. Postpartum patients with
sepsis findings should be tested for COVID-19 during outbreak for public health and patients’ well-being. The clinical
characteristics of urosepsis might be similar to COVID-19 disease in postpartum patients. Here, we reported the clinical
management of a case with acute respiratory disorder and septic shock due to urosepsis in the postpartum period,
mimicking COVID-19 infection.

Keywords

Severe acute respiratory syndrome, coronavirus, pandemic, postpartum urosepsis, pneumonia, pregnancy

Postpartum septik olgu: COVID-19 ve ürosepsisin ayırıcı tanısı

Abstract

İlk olarak Çin'in Wuhan kentinde tanımlanan yeni tip koronavirüs hastalığı (COVID-19), küresel bir halk sağlığı sorunu
olan, bir çeşit solunum yolu enfeksiyonudur. Vaka raporları ve küçük kohort çalışmalarından oluşan, gebelikte COVID-19
ile ilgili veriler sınırlıdır. Doğum sonrası ürosepsis de küresel olarak yaygın bir hastalıktır ve pekçok yayın bulunmaktadır.
Sepsis bulguları olan postpartum hastalar, salgın sırasında; halk sağlığı ve hastanın kendi iyiliği açısından COVID-19 için test
edilmelidir. Ürosepsisin klinik özellikleri, doğum sonrası hastalarda COVID-19 hastalığına benzer olabilir. Bu olgu sunumu
ile; postpartum dönemde ani akut solunum bozukluğu ve septik şok bulguları geliştiren bir vakada COVID-19 enfeksiyonu
ve ürosepsis ayırıcı tanısının ve tedavisinin nasıl yönetildiğini anlatmak amaçlanmıştır.

Keywords

postpartum ürosepsis, Şiddetli akut respiratuvar sendrom, koronavirus, pandemi, postpartum ürosepsis, pnömoni, gebelik

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