Acute Abdomen Is a Rare Presentation of COVID-19 in the Absence of Respiratory Manifestations: A Case Report

Mild gastrointestinal symptoms and mild abdominal pain often occur in association with COVID-19. However, acute abdomen and severe abdominal pain warranting urgent surgical treatment are rare. Here we present the case of a 40-year-old man who presented with the clinical picture of a perforated duode...

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Autores principales: Mohamed, Abbas A, Alharbi, Mohammed, Mohamed, Sarah A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10457470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37637652
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42518
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description Mild gastrointestinal symptoms and mild abdominal pain often occur in association with COVID-19. However, acute abdomen and severe abdominal pain warranting urgent surgical treatment are rare. Here we present the case of a 40-year-old man who presented with the clinical picture of a perforated duodenal ulcer. He was eventually found to have COVID-19 and was treated conservatively. In this report, we discuss his course of treatment and review the relevant literature.
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spelling pubmed-104574702023-08-27 Acute Abdomen Is a Rare Presentation of COVID-19 in the Absence of Respiratory Manifestations: A Case Report Mohamed, Abbas A Alharbi, Mohammed Mohamed, Sarah A Cureus Gastroenterology Mild gastrointestinal symptoms and mild abdominal pain often occur in association with COVID-19. However, acute abdomen and severe abdominal pain warranting urgent surgical treatment are rare. Here we present the case of a 40-year-old man who presented with the clinical picture of a perforated duodenal ulcer. He was eventually found to have COVID-19 and was treated conservatively. In this report, we discuss his course of treatment and review the relevant literature. Cureus 2023-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10457470/ /pubmed/37637652 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42518 Text en Copyright © 2023, Mohamed et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Acute Abdomen Is a Rare Presentation of COVID-19 in the Absence of Respiratory Manifestations: A Case Report
title Acute Abdomen Is a Rare Presentation of COVID-19 in the Absence of Respiratory Manifestations: A Case Report
title_full Acute Abdomen Is a Rare Presentation of COVID-19 in the Absence of Respiratory Manifestations: A Case Report
title_fullStr Acute Abdomen Is a Rare Presentation of COVID-19 in the Absence of Respiratory Manifestations: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Acute Abdomen Is a Rare Presentation of COVID-19 in the Absence of Respiratory Manifestations: A Case Report
title_short Acute Abdomen Is a Rare Presentation of COVID-19 in the Absence of Respiratory Manifestations: A Case Report
title_sort acute abdomen is a rare presentation of covid-19 in the absence of respiratory manifestations: a case report
topic Gastroenterology
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