Complications of the COVID-19 in a hypertensive patient

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COVID-19, pulmonary distress, pulmonary embolism, arterial hypertension, intensive care unit.

Abstract

Introduction: The rapid expansion of COVID-19 caused the World Health Organization, on January 30, 2020, to declare it a health emergency and recognized it as a pandemic on March 11 of the same year.
Objective: To describe the clinical evolution of a hypertensive patient, affected by COVID-19.
Clinical case: This is a 49-year-old patient, hypertensive, affected by COVID-19, treated at the Dr. "Joaquín Castillo Duany" Military Hospital, who during his stay in the intensive care unit, suffered serious complications such as: acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia associated with mechanical artificial ventilation, and pulmonary thromboembolism. The delay in going to the hospital, arterial hypertension, and previous treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, were among the variables present in this patient, which possibly had a negative impact on his evolution.
Conclusion: With intensive treatment, the ventilatory and anticoagulation strategy used, evolved favorably until his hospital discharge.

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2020-09-10

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Ferrer Castro JE, Sánchez Hernández E, Despaigne Salazar RE, Lavalle Gómez L, Rodríguez González Z. Complications of the COVID-19 in a hypertensive patient. Rev Cubana Med Milit [Internet]. 2020 Sep. 10 [cited 2025 Apr. 3];49(3):e0200806. Available from: https://revmedmilitar.sld.cu/index.php/mil/article/view/806

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Vol. 49 No. 3 (2020): July - September

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