Gastric Perforation as a Complication of COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report

Pulmonary symptoms are the primary manifestation of the COVID-19 disease, which originated in Wuhan in China in December 2019. However, it is now established to show widespread extrapulmonary manifestations, including gastrointestinal involvement. Abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting are c...

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Autores principales: Almulhim, Abdulrahman S, Alghazzi, Alaa, Almohammed saleh, Ali A, Alsulaiman, Ahmed H, Alnosair, Lojain A, Alghareeb, Fatimah Y
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9060744/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35509747
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23725
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Sumario:Pulmonary symptoms are the primary manifestation of the COVID-19 disease, which originated in Wuhan in China in December 2019. However, it is now established to show widespread extrapulmonary manifestations, including gastrointestinal involvement. Abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting are considered the most common gastrointestinal symptoms. Gastric perforation in association with COVID-19 is rarely reported in the literature. Here, we report a case of a 71-year-old male COVID-19-infected patient, medically free, who presented to the emergency department complaining of severe abdominal pain for a one-week duration. He was diagnosed with a case of perforated viscus and septic shock. The patient was shifted to the operating room for exploratory laparotomy. We aim in this report to highlight this fatal complication of COVID-19 infection in order to improve patients' outcomes.

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