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Colonic Gangrene: A Sequela of Coronavirus Disease 2019

Initially considered to be a respiratory disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is now recognized as a multisystem disease known to affect all the major organs, including the gastrointestinal system. Based on recent studies, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 causes dysregulation...

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Autores principales: Varshney, Rahul, Bansal, Nalini, Khanduri, Archana, Gupta, Jyoti, Gupta, Rahul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8153963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34055531
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14687
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author Varshney, Rahul
Bansal, Nalini
Khanduri, Archana
Gupta, Jyoti
Gupta, Rahul
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description Initially considered to be a respiratory disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is now recognized as a multisystem disease known to affect all the major organs, including the gastrointestinal system. Based on recent studies, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 causes dysregulation of multiple biological pathways, triggers an exaggerated immune response, and affects multiple organs. The gastrointestinal symptoms in COVID-19 are common but often overlooked. We report the case of a 50-year-old female with a recent history of COVID-19 presenting with complaints of abdominal pain and constipation. Initially, the patient was treated for respiratory symptoms and discharged home. Subsequently, she was re-admitted and diagnosed with colonic obstruction on radiology. Laparotomy revealed descending and sigmoid colonic gangrene requiring left colectomy. This case highlights the uncommon but severe gastrointestinal manifestations of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-81539632021-05-28 Colonic Gangrene: A Sequela of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Varshney, Rahul Bansal, Nalini Khanduri, Archana Gupta, Jyoti Gupta, Rahul Cureus Internal Medicine Initially considered to be a respiratory disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is now recognized as a multisystem disease known to affect all the major organs, including the gastrointestinal system. Based on recent studies, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 causes dysregulation of multiple biological pathways, triggers an exaggerated immune response, and affects multiple organs. The gastrointestinal symptoms in COVID-19 are common but often overlooked. We report the case of a 50-year-old female with a recent history of COVID-19 presenting with complaints of abdominal pain and constipation. Initially, the patient was treated for respiratory symptoms and discharged home. Subsequently, she was re-admitted and diagnosed with colonic obstruction on radiology. Laparotomy revealed descending and sigmoid colonic gangrene requiring left colectomy. This case highlights the uncommon but severe gastrointestinal manifestations of COVID-19. Cureus 2021-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8153963/ /pubmed/34055531 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14687 Text en Copyright © 2021, Varshney 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
Varshney, Rahul
Bansal, Nalini
Khanduri, Archana
Gupta, Jyoti
Gupta, Rahul
Colonic Gangrene: A Sequela of Coronavirus Disease 2019
title Colonic Gangrene: A Sequela of Coronavirus Disease 2019
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title_fullStr Colonic Gangrene: A Sequela of Coronavirus Disease 2019
title_full_unstemmed Colonic Gangrene: A Sequela of Coronavirus Disease 2019
title_short Colonic Gangrene: A Sequela of Coronavirus Disease 2019
title_sort colonic gangrene: a sequela of coronavirus disease 2019
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8153963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34055531
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.14687
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