Rapidly Progressive Bilateral Extremity Necrosis Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the causative virus of coronavirus disease 2019, causes thrombosis via direct effects on vascular endothelial cells. Necrosis of the extremities due to arterial occlusion has been reported in patients with coronavirus disease 2019. Here, we report a case of multiple arterial occlusions associated with coronavirus disease 2019. Although the extent to which severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection is responsible for the development of necrosis of the extremities in this patient is uncertain, surgeons who routinely treat patients with necrosis of the extremities should consider severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection as a possible cause of necrosis of the extremities, which can present with rapid progression in multiple extremities.