Massive late postoperative bleeding after abdominal surgery in a haematologic patient with postoperative CoV-2 infection.
Roberta TutinoLuca BonariolEzio CaratozzoloMarco MassaniPublished in: BMJ case reports (2021)
The role of viral infection in extrapulmonary postoperative complications in CoV-2 patients is still debated. Perioperative bleeding is rare compared with thrombotic events, but can be related to a haemorrhagic CoV-2-associated disseminated intravascular coagulopathy-like syndrome.