Get our daily coronavirus email newsletter with all the news you need to know direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailA coronavirus patient was left with a painful four-hour erection after Covid-19 triggered blood clots in his penis. The man, 62, was in hospital in France being treated for coronavirus, when he started experiencing the erection, known as priapism. While coronavirus is known to cause blood clots in up to a third of Covid-19 patients, this is believed to be the first case in which the clots developed in a patient’s penis. However, the researchers were shocked to discover ‘previously unidentified priapism.’(Image: Getty Images)While the tip of his penis was flaccid, the two chambers of tissue in his penis were rigid, due to blood clots. "The clinical and laboratory presentation in our patient strongly suggests priapism related to SARS-CoV-2 infection.”The case study comes shortly after medical experts revealed that up to 30% of coronavirus patients develop dangerous blood clots.

Source: Daily Mirror July 02, 2020 07:05 UTC