Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and orthostatic hypotension in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 during pregnancy: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) often experience the addition of new symptoms after recovery from COVID-19 illness. These may include orthostatic intolerance and autonomic dysfunction, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome has been described to occur in a proportion of patients with PASC.

Case summary

In this report, we present a 32-year-old pregnant woman (G3P2) who experiences severe orthostatic symptoms as part of her PASC syndrome, which is decoupled from normal physiologic changes of pregnancy. At 25 weeks of gestation, she was evaluated for increasing episodes of dyspnoea, marked tachycardia with minimal exertion, intermittent non-exertional chest pain, and presyncope. This patient had a moderate course of COVID-19 at 12 weeks of

SUBMITTER: Hanson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9732766 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature