[Six cases of acute pulmonary embolism associated with COVID-19]

Rising from the province of Wuhan in China, the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 broke out in winter 2019, causing a global pandemic. In most cases reported, COVID-19 symptoms include cough, dyspnea, myalgia and asthenia. In some cases, the disease can also cause severe respiratory distress syndrome, requiring intensive care. Recent studies suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection predisposes to thromboembolic event such as pulmonary embolism. Moreover, there is an overlap between signs and symptoms of pulmonary embolism and COVID-19, which brings a challenge for the diagnosis and could potentially be fatal. Nevertheless, the incidence rate of pulmonary embolism in cases of COVID-19 is currently not known. In this paper we describe six cases of pulmonary embolism associated with COVID-19.

[Eye's traumatic enucleation : need for a multidisciplinary management]

We report a rare case of a 33 year-old man victim of a public assault resulting in bilateral enucleation of the orbits. The optic nerves were ripped or even pulled out with subsequent subarachnoïdal hemorrhage as well as chiasm lesions. Meaning castration, such an act may express a psychiatric or a neurologic disorder. The management must be multidisciplinary by a team that includes emergency doctors, radiologist, ophthalmologist, neurosurgeon as well as psychiatrist and neurologist.