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For patients and doctors, the COVID-19 pandemic has become an extra hurdle to overcome. The following case illustrates how patients\u2019 non-compliance associated with mirror syndrome and SARS-CoV-2 infection led to the tragic end of a 19-year-old patient. Therefore, knowledge of the signs and symptoms of mirror syndrome should always be part of the armamentarium of every obstetrician.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina57101031","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,28]],"date-time":"2021-09-28T21:38:09Z","timestamp":1632865089000},"page":"1031","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Fatal Association of Mirror and Eisenmenger Syndrome during the COVID-19 Pandemic"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"57","author":[{"given":"Viorica","family":"Radoi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Institute of Mother and Child Care Alessandrescu-Rusescu, 020395 Bucharest, Romania"},{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7175-0082","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lucian Gheorghe","family":"Pop","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Institute of Mother and Child Care Alessandrescu-Rusescu, 020395 Bucharest, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nicolae","family":"Bacalbasa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anca Maria","family":"Panaitescu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania"},{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Filantropia Clinical Hospital, 011171 Bucharest, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Anca Marina","family":"Ciobanu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania"},{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Filantropia Clinical Hospital, 011171 Bucharest, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dragos","family":"Cretoiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Institute of Mother and Child Care Alessandrescu-Rusescu, 020395 Bucharest, Romania"},{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Oana Daniela","family":"Toader","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Institute of Mother and Child Care Alessandrescu-Rusescu, 020395 Bucharest, Romania"},{"name":"Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,9,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"66","DOI":"10.1136\/adc.68.1_Spec_No.66","article-title":"Dr John Ballantyne (1861\u20131923): Perinatologist extraordinary of Edinburgh","volume":"68","author":"Dunn","year":"1993","journal-title":"Arch. 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