Man Dies of COVID-19 after 3-Hour Erection

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COVID-19 is known to attack multiple organs as well as the vascular system. These attacks can be fatal.

COVID-19 patient dies after rare 3-hour erection in hospital - National:

Doctors say a 69-year-old man died of COVID-19 last year after exhibiting a bizarre and extremely rare side effect of the disease, which they described as a three-hour erection.

The U.S. patient was suffering from priapism, which involves a persistent erection that outlasts or has nothing to do with sexual stimulation, according to the case report published in the January edition of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

[...] According to the case report, the patient had a history of obesity and was suffering from a prolonged cough, congestion, anorexia, weakness and shortness of breath when he went to the emergency room at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, last year. He tested positive for COVID-19 and remained in hospital for several days, during which his health continued to decline. He was eventually sedated, intubated, placed on a ventilator and moved into a prone [(face down)] position to make him more comfortable.

"Nursing noticed an erection" on the afternoon after he was repositioned, doctors wrote in the case study. Health-care workers tried to help by placing ice packs around the man's penis, but it stayed erect for three hours.

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