Outcome of a HIV Positive Patient Infected with COVID-19 After an Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation: A Case Report

Abstract

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the SARS-COV-2 disease pandemic on March 9, 2020.With the advent of this disease, another health burden was added to about 37.9 million people in the world who are infected with HIV and are suffering from various diseases. These people may be at serious risk of covid-19. Information about the effects of Covid-19 on people living with HIV, is limited. Case presentation: We reported a 61-year-old man who was a known case of HIV from 6 years ago that was being treated with HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy). He also had a history of Hodgkin’s lymphoma from 4 years ago who underwent autologous bone marrow transplantation (BMT) 2 weeks before given referral to our hospital. He complained of weakness, anorexia, and fever. RT-PCR for SARS-COV-2-RNA was positive in his nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab. He was diagnosed with COVID-19 infection and treated with atazanavir. After one week, the patient discharged in a good general state. Conclusion: To the best of our knowledge, it is the first report of COVID-19 infection in an HIV positive patient after BMT in Iran. Despite his immunodeficiency, COVID-19 disease had mild manifestations and he had a good prognosis. We hope that our report and that of others can remain promising to doctors and HIV patients cross fingers for COVID-19 recovery.

Neurological Manifestations of Hospitalized COVID-19-Infected Patients: A Single-Center Cohort Study

“…Neurologic symptoms of COVID-19 have been reported since the outbreak of the pandemic (3). Nonspecific neurologic symptoms (such as headache, dizziness, and seizure) can be associated with this disease (6,13). This study suggested that 67% of patients with COVID-19 had at least one of the neurological symptoms.…”