COVID-19 patients presenting with gangrenous acalculous cholecystitis: Report of two cases

INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: COVID-19 virus is thought to complicate underlying conditions, including acalculous cholecystitis. Two COVID-19 patients with gangrenous gallbladder are reported who were not involved with severe pneumonia. CASE PRESENTATION: We present two non-critically ill patients wi...

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Autores principales: Hajebi, Reza, Habibi, Pedram, Maroufi, Seyed Farzad, Bahreini, Maryam, Miratashi Yazdi, Seyed Amir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8960289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35371471
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103534
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: COVID-19 virus is thought to complicate underlying conditions, including acalculous cholecystitis. Two COVID-19 patients with gangrenous gallbladder are reported who were not involved with severe pneumonia. CASE PRESENTATION: We present two non-critically ill patients with COVID-19 presenting with acalculous cholecystitis. Both patients had gangrenous gallbladder and had to undergo cholecystectomy. Upon surgery, one of the patients showed patchy gangrene on gallbladder and the other, a fully gangrenous gallbladder. CONCLUSION: There may be a possibility for COVID-19 patients with cholecystitis to develop ischemic gallbladder.

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