Regresar

Non-respiratory symptoms of COVID-19. Urticary in asymptomatic patients

Abstract:

Viral pneumonia is the inflammation of the lung parenchyma caused by a viral infection. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by a new type of coronavirus 2 that produces severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-Cov-2) and is the agent responsible for the current pandemic. A percentage of the cases ends with a fatal outcome. Many patients are asymptomatic at the onset of the disease. There are reports of cases with COVID-19 positive, which initially presented a skin rash with no respiratory symptoms; this can be misdiagnosed as a common skin disease, not related to COVID-19. Finding two asymptomatic cases, with a positive result of COVID-19 and with urticaria as the only symptom, this review was carried out, which made it possible to identify that other cases have been reported in the world. For this reason, it is important for the health professional to be alert to these atypical symptoms in asymptomatic patients and to recognize the possibility that it is not just a common dermatosis. This disease could be the prelude of an infected patient and, given this suspicion, the transmission of the disease could be prevented, as well as given timely diagnosis and treatment.