Lung cancer and lambert Eaton syndrome concealed by COVİD-19

Selçuk Akan

COVID-19, which infects millions of people worldwide, can affect many organs and systems, mainly lungs, heart, brain, kidneys, vascular endothelium and bone marrow. As a result; it causes a wide range of complications such as ARDS, acute coronary syndrome, delirium, pancytopenia, DIC, kidney damage. Therefore, in the presence of COVID-19, some diseases that progress rapidly and which can cause similar complications may be concealed. In our article, we’re going to tell a patient who was missed due to the adverse effects of the pandemic period and because the COVID-19 infection may cause similar findings, although he admitted to emergency clinique twice before. In a pancytopenic patient suffering from intermittent fever, exhaustion, myalgia and arthralgia for several months, the diagnosis of small cell lung cancer, bone marrow metastasis and Lambert Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS) was delayed due to the presence of COVID-19 infection. Therefore, the patient died in a short time. It was presented because it is a rare case and can lead to serious consequences if not imagined.
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