BACKGROUND:
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2) has
emerged as a novel human pathogen in December 2019 and was declared a
pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020 (1).
Since its discovery, this once thought to be a respiratory illness is
now considered as a multisystemic disease with multiple organ
involvement including clotting disorders (2). Coagulopathy in Covid 19
infection is associated rather with thromboembolic events than bleeding
tendency (1). Hemorrhagic events related to the Covid 19 disease are at
the moment strictly limited to case reports.
We here by present the case of a 10-year-old chronic hemodialysis
patient with spontaneous hemothorax with a concurrent COVID 19
infection.