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SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with micturition syncope: Our experience with 4 case reports
Victoria Birlutiu1, Rares Mircea Birlutiu2, Alin Iulian Feiereisz3
1Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Medicine Sibiu, Academic Emergency Hospital Sibiu - Infectious Diseases Clinic, Sibiu.
Rationale:
Syncope is described as the loss of consciousness and postural muscle tone with a short duration and fast onset. Micturition syncope can be caused by abnormal vasovagal response or by the dysfunction of the blood pressure regulating mechanism, which occurs before, during, or immediately after urination.
Patient Concerns:
We present 4 cases of COVID-19 hospitalized in the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Academic Emergency Hospital Sibiu, Romania, cases that presented micturition syncope.
Diagnoses:
During hospitalization, patients confirmed with SARS-Cov-2 infection using real time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay, presented micturition syncope in different stages of the infection (at the beginning and in the second week of evolution).
Interventions:
Other causes of syncope such as adrenal insufficiency secondary to corticosteroids treatment, cardiac rhythm disorders, neurological impairment, dehydration, vasoactive medication, malignancies, pulmonary hypertension and coughing were excluded. The treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection was performed following the local and national guidelines.
Outcomes:
The clinical course of all 4 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and micturition syncope was favorable. To our knowledge, micturition syncope in COVID-19 patients has yet not been reported by other authors.
Lessons:
To our knowledge, micturition syncope associated with the evolution of COVID-19, has yet not been reported by other authors.
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