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

Mohammed Yousif Elnaeem YousifMohammed Mahmmoud Fadel Allah EljackMohammed AlfatihMohammed AbdulkarimAbdirizak Ibrahim MohamedKhabab Abbasher Hussien Mohamed AhmedMazin S Hassan Haroun
Published in: Clinical case reports (2021)
A 16-year-old female patient presented to our ED with fever and coughing of blood for 3 days. She is known to have SLE for 5 months and takes oral prednisone. She was tested positive for COVID-19. She developed hypocalcemia with clinically diagnosed massive pulmonary embolism. She was treated with heparin and recovered.
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