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An Unusual Case of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient With COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is predominantly a respiratory disease that often presents with fever, cough, dyspnea, and myalgia or fatigue. Digestive symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain may accompany respiratory symptoms. However, gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding amo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8046381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33880257 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13901 |
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author | Sanku, Koushik Siddiqui, Abdul Hasan Paul, Vishesh Ali, Moeez |
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description | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is predominantly a respiratory disease that often presents with fever, cough, dyspnea, and myalgia or fatigue. Digestive symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain may accompany respiratory symptoms. However, gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding among COVID-19 patients is a rare and unusual presentation, since these patients are frequently hypercoagulable and are less likely to bleed and more likely to clot. In this report, we present a case of an 80-year-old male with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and obesity who presented with GI bleed and was subsequently found to have COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-80463812021-04-19 An Unusual Case of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient With COVID-19 Sanku, Koushik Siddiqui, Abdul Hasan Paul, Vishesh Ali, Moeez Cureus Internal Medicine Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is predominantly a respiratory disease that often presents with fever, cough, dyspnea, and myalgia or fatigue. Digestive symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain may accompany respiratory symptoms. However, gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding among COVID-19 patients is a rare and unusual presentation, since these patients are frequently hypercoagulable and are less likely to bleed and more likely to clot. In this report, we present a case of an 80-year-old male with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and obesity who presented with GI bleed and was subsequently found to have COVID-19. Cureus 2021-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8046381/ /pubmed/33880257 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13901 Text en Copyright © 2021, Sanku 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. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Sanku, Koushik Siddiqui, Abdul Hasan Paul, Vishesh Ali, Moeez An Unusual Case of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title | An Unusual Case of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title_full | An Unusual Case of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | An Unusual Case of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | An Unusual Case of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title_short | An Unusual Case of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient With COVID-19 |
title_sort | unusual case of gastrointestinal bleeding in a patient with covid-19 |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8046381/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33880257 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13901 |
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