Diarrhoea and the COVID-19 pandemic

The new COVID-19 pandemic has been initially linked to respiratory manisfestations. However, there is increasing evidence that other systems are affected by SARS-CoV2; one of which is the gastrointestinal system with several organ-related symptoms and possible implications on prognosis and spread. D...

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Autor principal: Gaber, Yasmine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pan-Arab Association of Gastroenterology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7833714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32680695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajg.2020.06.001
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description The new COVID-19 pandemic has been initially linked to respiratory manisfestations. However, there is increasing evidence that other systems are affected by SARS-CoV2; one of which is the gastrointestinal system with several organ-related symptoms and possible implications on prognosis and spread. Diarrhoea is one of the main symptoms of gastrointestinal involvement. In this review the mechanisms, characteristics, prognostic significance and managment of of COVID-19 related diarrhoea are discussed. The possibility of faecal transmission of disease is reviewed.
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spelling pubmed-78337142021-01-26 Diarrhoea and the COVID-19 pandemic Gaber, Yasmine Arab J Gastroenterol Review Article The new COVID-19 pandemic has been initially linked to respiratory manisfestations. However, there is increasing evidence that other systems are affected by SARS-CoV2; one of which is the gastrointestinal system with several organ-related symptoms and possible implications on prognosis and spread. Diarrhoea is one of the main symptoms of gastrointestinal involvement. In this review the mechanisms, characteristics, prognostic significance and managment of of COVID-19 related diarrhoea are discussed. The possibility of faecal transmission of disease is reviewed. Pan-Arab Association of Gastroenterology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-09 2020-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7833714/ /pubmed/32680695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajg.2020.06.001 Text en © 2020 Pan-Arab Association of Gastroenterology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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