Even three years into the pandemic, COVID-19 is still top of mind, dominating the most-read medical case reports for 2022. This year's range from unusual side effects caused by infections with the virus itself to rare adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines.
People are shown outside a COVID-19 testing site in Montreal, Saturday, January 15, 2022, as the pandemic continues in Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
As opposed to studies, which have a wider pool of participants, medical case reports provide an in-depth description of one patient’s illness or disorder, usually one that is rare or challenges our existing understanding of a certain medical issue. Something that made diagnosis even harder was that he had normal cardiac biomarkers. Based on the chest pain, he was diagnosed with pericarditis, which is a swelling of the thin tissue that surrounds the heart. While conducting numerous other tests, which failed to find a cause, doctors had the patient take a PCR test, which came back positive for COVID-19.
Graves’ disease is another disorder related to the immune system — this one results in the overproduction of thyroid hormones, which can cause a range of symptoms including bulging eyes, swelling around the thyroid gland in the throat, weight loss, fatigue and anxiety, among others. The authors noted that adverse events are inevitable with a vaccine rollout of this magnitude, but that these reactions are rare.
The woman is currently making a “very good recovery,” the report stated, and chose to receive the second dose of AstraZeneca with no negative reactions., published in January, also told the story of a woman who experienced a type of blood clots called vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia after receiving Dose 1 of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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