2. CASE REPORT
A 29-year-old female patient presented with a 5-day history of fever, palpitations, and dyspnea. There was no history of chronic illness, trauma, surgery, or intravenous drug abuse. The patient had positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for COVID-19 followed by home treatment and partial clinical improvement before re-occurence of fever and shortness of breath.
On admission, she had fever (temperature of 38°C), siuus tachycardia, tachypnea, normal blood pressure, and oxygen saturation of 94% in room air. The laboratory investigations (Table 1) revealed total leucocytic count of 12000/μL (lymphocyte count: 15%) and C-reactive protein (CRP) of 67.4 mg/L, with positive PCR test.