Hemolysis and COVID-19 infection: A fatal combination – An interesting series of three cases Balraam KV, Raj V, Sagoo GK, Garg N, Taneja NS, Sen AD, - J Indian Prosthodont Soc

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Hemolysis and COVID-19 infection: A fatal combination – An interesting series of three cases K. V. Vinu Balraam¹, Vikas Raj², Gurpreet Kaur Sagoo³, Nidhi Garg⁴, Nitin Sagar Taneja⁵, Alok D Sen⁵ ¹ Department of Pathology, Military Hospital, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India ² Department of Internal Medicine, Military Hospital, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India ³ Department of Pathology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India ⁴ Department of Neonatology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India ⁵ Department of Pathology, Military Hospital, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India Correspondence Address: K. V. Vinu Balraam, Department of Pathology, Military Hospital, Shimla - 171 006, Himachal Pradesh India Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None DOI: 10.4103/ijh.ijh_26_22

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc ever since its inception and with the protean manifestations of the disease, it is imperative that progressively data are added to the literature. COVID-19 infection is a multisystem disorder with a wide range of clinical symptomatology. Recent information garnered has laid emphasis on pathological changes at microvascular level causing thrombotic/hemostatic defects, leading to the assorted clinical presentation. We present a consortium of three confirmed COVID-19 cases whose hospital course got convoluted with grave hematological complications in the form of hemolytic uremic syndrome and autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Regrettably, all three patients succumbed to their illness.

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