Volume 25, Issue 112, June 2021

Premature ovarian failure - A long COVID sequelae

Sparsh Madaan¹, Arpita Jaiswal^2♦, Sunil Kumar³, Dhruv Talwar⁴, Dhruva Halani¹

¹Post Graduate Resident, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
²Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
³Professor, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
⁴Post Graduate Resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India

^♦Corresponding author
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

Ever since its emergence since 2019, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought the healthcare setup down with its burden of varied appearance and presentation. It can lead to a severe disease with respiratory distress syndrome along with hypercoagulability and various neurological complications. There has been an emergence of a large population of patients who develop a subsequent long term disease known as “long-COVID’ which is thought to be secondary to chronic tissue inflammation. We Report a case a 34-year-old female who was infected with COVID-19 12 months back and presented with infertility as a post COVID sequelae. This is the first case report linking Ovarian Failure with COVID-19 in our knowledge.

Keywords: Long Covid, Premature ovarian failure, Infertility

Medical Science, 2021, 25(112), 1286-1290

PDF