Thread by @DrEricDing

FIRST ever case of a man who suffered agonizing penis pain due to a “mild” #COVID19 infection 3 weeks earlier that caused a blood clot of his penis vein—mid-erection. It took 2 months of blood thinner treatment before he regained normal function. Mild? 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cc…

2) The deep dorsal penis vein runs the whole length of the penis and is involved in supply of oxygenated blood to the organ.

An ultrasound showed “no [blood] flow in the vein” due to a clot around half way along the penis.

nypost.com/2022/01/18/man…

3) The unnamed male had suffered penile pain for three days before being seen by a urologist in Iran, who referred him for tests.
The discomfort began following an erection while having sex, the 41-year-old married man told doctors.

4) Soon, doctors started giving rivaroxaban, a blood thinning medication used to treat & prevent blood clots. 
“**Two months** 👀 after starting the treatment, patient’s symptoms were completely disappeared and he had no penile pain during erection & sexual disturbances anymore”

5) However, the man still experienced a little pain under pressure at the site of the blood clotting.

Doctors had to drain blood from the penis using a needle because ice packs did not work to bring the stiffness down.

6) Scientists have learned over the pandemic that the coronavirus does not just cause respiratory symptoms.
One of its other features is to increase the tendency of blood to clot. In fact, this is often the cause of death.

7) “Roughly, 20 percent – 50 percent of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 infection have abnormal coagulation tests,” Mr Morteza Bagheri wrote

8) A 69-year-old man in Ohio, suffered a three-hour erection — a condition called priapism — due to blood clotting problems in his penis. thesun.co.uk/news/14273729/…

9) Medics reported that they believed COVID had caused clots to form in his penis, trapping blood in the erection chambers. 
Doctors had to drain blood from the penis using a needle
He unfortunately died of COVID due to his lungs failing.

10) Another man in his 60s, in France, had to go through the same procedure after COVID left him with a four-hour erection.
In this case, the doctors concluded that the man’s priapism had been triggered by COVID.

thesun.co.uk/news/12002080/…

11) Meanwhile, experts have found evidence that COVID may damage the blood vessels of the penis, making it harder to get an erection.
One man in his 30s revealed he had struggled to get an erection after infection and, as a result, his penis had shrunk. thesun.co.uk/health/mens-he…

12) This is a serious topic people. Don’t laugh. There are many other risks of #LongCovid. There is more seriously brain and neuronal damage from #SARSCoV2 infection— which can also hurt neural circuit function. It’s no joke! A very serious immunologist I respect 👇

https://twitter.com/VirusesImmunity/status/1482768706228862977

13) and it’s not just blood clots and brain 🧠 damage of #COVID19 — there is accumulating evidence of T-cell damage directly harming our immune system… see thread 🧵 below. COVID is **not** HIV, but it does lot of damage to T cells…

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1482895592183541762