A Report of Unprovoked Bilateral Epistaxis in Patient with Covid-19: Our Experience

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral disease that was first reported in China in 2019. Since it was reported, it has resulted to close to nine hundred thousand deaths globally. The symptoms and signs of COVID-19 continue to evolve on a daily basis, therefore a knowledge of the common symptoms and other new symptoms is key to early diagnosis and control of this disease. In this report, we present a 30 year-old COVID-19 female patient, who presented with acute unprovoked epistaxis, a week after onset of symptoms (cough, malaise, fatigue) of COVID-19. Considering the evolving symptoms of COVID-19, health care personnel are advised to consider the possibility of COVID-19 in patients presenting with atypical symptoms like sudden unprovoked epistaxis especially during the pandemic period.

This report further strengthens the need for more large inter-country studies to be done to completely highlight and harmonize the varying and evolving symptoms of COVID-19.