Hypocalcemia and massive pulmonary embolism in SLE patient with COVID‐19 infection: A case report

Abstract

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that is characterized with autoantibodies production with on and off clinical course. It can affect any age or gender, but it has a particular tendency to affect young females, with a female-to-male ratio of about 9:1. 1 SLE can affect almost every organ system with a diverse scale of manifestations. The disease severity can vary from a very mild illness to a systemic life-threatening illness. [2][3][4] Although manifestations can affect almost every system in the body, cardiac and lung manifestations have a significant impact on patients' everyday life and outcome. Respiratory affection can affect the lung, pleura, or lung vasculature with various degrees of affection from an asymptomatic illness to severe respiratory compromise. | CASE HISTORY/ EXAMINATIONA 16-year-old female patient has presented to our accidents and emergency department complaining of fever and coughing of blood for 3 days. Her condition started

Severe Subconjunctival Hemorrhage: An Uncommon Ocular Manifestation of Malaria Induced by Antimalarial Drug - A Case Report

“…The majority of malaria episodes reported annually worldwide are from the Sub-Saharan African countries including Sudan [1,2]. Unfortunately, Sudan suffers from several infectious diseases with overlapping symptoms creating additional challenges in the case definition and management [3][4][5][6]. This delay in identifying the cases, reporting, and management is contributing to the increase of malaria burden [7][8][9].…”