Open AccessOne disease, many faces-typical and atypical presentations of SARS-CoV-2 infection-related COVID-19 disease
Author(s) -
Cyriac Abby Philips,
Narain Mohan,
Rizwan Ahamed,
Sandeep Kumbar,
Sasidharan Rajesh,
T D Staint George,
Meera Mohanan,
Philip Augustine
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of clinical cases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2307-8960
DOI - 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i18.3956
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , covid-19 , pandemic , pneumonia , coronavirus , intensive care medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , sepsis , atypical pneumonia , respiratory distress , pediatrics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , immunology , outbreak , pathology , surgery
Since the appearance of the novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2) and related coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China in December 2019, a very high number of small and large patient series have been published in literature from around the world. Even though the classical presentation of COVID-19 is one with respiratory symptoms with or without pneumonia that can be self-limiting or evolve into severe respiratory distress syndrome with multiple organ failure, and secondary bacterial sepsis, a large body of evidence suggests a plethora of other types of clinical presentation. In this exhaustive review, we reviewed all of the published literature on COVID-19 to identify different types of clinical presentations affecting various organ systems, to provide an in-depth analysis that may prove useful for clinicians and health-workers on the frontline, battling the severe pandemic.