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Rare case of a patient with testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia, requiring emergency surgery, during the COVID‐19 pandemic

INTRODUCTION: The COVID‐19 pandemic has been causing delay in patient arrival at hospital and starting surgery. We report a delay in a case of testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Japan. CASE PRESENTATION: A 17‐year‐old Japanese boy presented to our emerg...

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Autores principales: Arai, Masahiro, Okada, Yohei, Takeshita, Hideki, Tachibana, Kojiro, Kagawa, Makoto, Nakayama, Takayuki, Yano, Akihiro, Morozumi, Makoto, Kawakami, Satoru
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35252789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iju5.12404
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author Arai, Masahiro
Okada, Yohei
Takeshita, Hideki
Tachibana, Kojiro
Kagawa, Makoto
Nakayama, Takayuki
Yano, Akihiro
Morozumi, Makoto
Kawakami, Satoru
author_facet Arai, Masahiro
Okada, Yohei
Takeshita, Hideki
Tachibana, Kojiro
Kagawa, Makoto
Nakayama, Takayuki
Yano, Akihiro
Morozumi, Makoto
Kawakami, Satoru
author_sort Arai, Masahiro
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description INTRODUCTION: The COVID‐19 pandemic has been causing delay in patient arrival at hospital and starting surgery. We report a delay in a case of testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Japan. CASE PRESENTATION: A 17‐year‐old Japanese boy presented to our emergency room with acute left scrotum pain and fever in January 2021. It took 2.5 h to transfer him. Physical examination and color Doppler ultrasonography revealed left testicular torsion. Chest computed tomography indicated acute pneumonia. He successfully underwent surgical detorsion 7.5 h after symptom onset, with COVID‐19 preventive measures in place. A negative polymerase chain reaction test result for COVID‐19 was revealed after surgery. CONCLUSION: We experienced a rare case of testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Special attention should be paid to preventing infection and surgery delay to avoid testicular loss.
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spelling pubmed-88880132022-03-04 Rare case of a patient with testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia, requiring emergency surgery, during the COVID‐19 pandemic Arai, Masahiro Okada, Yohei Takeshita, Hideki Tachibana, Kojiro Kagawa, Makoto Nakayama, Takayuki Yano, Akihiro Morozumi, Makoto Kawakami, Satoru IJU Case Rep Case Reports INTRODUCTION: The COVID‐19 pandemic has been causing delay in patient arrival at hospital and starting surgery. We report a delay in a case of testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Japan. CASE PRESENTATION: A 17‐year‐old Japanese boy presented to our emergency room with acute left scrotum pain and fever in January 2021. It took 2.5 h to transfer him. Physical examination and color Doppler ultrasonography revealed left testicular torsion. Chest computed tomography indicated acute pneumonia. He successfully underwent surgical detorsion 7.5 h after symptom onset, with COVID‐19 preventive measures in place. A negative polymerase chain reaction test result for COVID‐19 was revealed after surgery. CONCLUSION: We experienced a rare case of testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Special attention should be paid to preventing infection and surgery delay to avoid testicular loss. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8888013/ /pubmed/35252789 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iju5.12404 Text en © 2021 The Authors. IJU Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japanese Urological Association https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
spellingShingle Case Reports
Arai, Masahiro
Okada, Yohei
Takeshita, Hideki
Tachibana, Kojiro
Kagawa, Makoto
Nakayama, Takayuki
Yano, Akihiro
Morozumi, Makoto
Kawakami, Satoru
Rare case of a patient with testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia, requiring emergency surgery, during the COVID‐19 pandemic
title Rare case of a patient with testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia, requiring emergency surgery, during the COVID‐19 pandemic
title_full Rare case of a patient with testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia, requiring emergency surgery, during the COVID‐19 pandemic
title_fullStr Rare case of a patient with testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia, requiring emergency surgery, during the COVID‐19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Rare case of a patient with testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia, requiring emergency surgery, during the COVID‐19 pandemic
title_short Rare case of a patient with testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia, requiring emergency surgery, during the COVID‐19 pandemic
title_sort rare case of a patient with testicular torsion complicated by acute pneumonia, requiring emergency surgery, during the covid‐19 pandemic
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35252789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iju5.12404
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