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COVID-19 Presenting as Banti's Syndrome
COVID causing Banti's syndrome has not been reported in literature yet. Banti’s syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by splenomegaly, ascites, and portal hypertension without coexisting cirrhosis of the liver. Here we report a case of a 32-year-old man who presented with hematemesis, and f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417070/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789044 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9096 |
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author | Malik, Zohra R Razaq, Zareen Siff, Melody Sheikh, Saher |
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description | COVID causing Banti's syndrome has not been reported in literature yet. Banti’s syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by splenomegaly, ascites, and portal hypertension without coexisting cirrhosis of the liver. Here we report a case of a 32-year-old man who presented with hematemesis, and further workup revealed that the patient had bleeding varices, ascites, and splenomegaly, thus completing the picture of Banti’s syndrome. Although this is a rare disorder, Banti's syndrome must be taken into account in a patient presenting with hematemesis and splenomegaly. The patient had flu-like symptoms for three weeks but did not seek any medical help and eventually presented with Banti's syndrome. His serology was positive for COVID-19. The coronavirus (COVID-19), discovered in 2019, has been creating havoc since it first emerged in China and is now spreading worldwide. Its presentation is somewhat similar to influenza. |
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spelling | pubmed-74170702020-08-11 COVID-19 Presenting as Banti's Syndrome Malik, Zohra R Razaq, Zareen Siff, Melody Sheikh, Saher Cureus Internal Medicine COVID causing Banti's syndrome has not been reported in literature yet. Banti’s syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by splenomegaly, ascites, and portal hypertension without coexisting cirrhosis of the liver. Here we report a case of a 32-year-old man who presented with hematemesis, and further workup revealed that the patient had bleeding varices, ascites, and splenomegaly, thus completing the picture of Banti’s syndrome. Although this is a rare disorder, Banti's syndrome must be taken into account in a patient presenting with hematemesis and splenomegaly. The patient had flu-like symptoms for three weeks but did not seek any medical help and eventually presented with Banti's syndrome. His serology was positive for COVID-19. The coronavirus (COVID-19), discovered in 2019, has been creating havoc since it first emerged in China and is now spreading worldwide. Its presentation is somewhat similar to influenza. Cureus 2020-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7417070/ /pubmed/32789044 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9096 Text en Copyright © 2020, Malik et al. http://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. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Malik, Zohra R Razaq, Zareen Siff, Melody Sheikh, Saher COVID-19 Presenting as Banti's Syndrome |
title | COVID-19 Presenting as Banti's Syndrome |
title_full | COVID-19 Presenting as Banti's Syndrome |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 Presenting as Banti's Syndrome |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 Presenting as Banti's Syndrome |
title_short | COVID-19 Presenting as Banti's Syndrome |
title_sort | covid-19 presenting as banti's syndrome |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417070/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789044 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9096 |
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