A Case of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis Triggered by COVID-19 Infection

Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel condition. One of the theories for its etiopathogenesis is gastrointestinal infections. Although COVID-19 primarily affects the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal involvement is also common. We have reported a case of a 28-year-old male who present...

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Autores principales: Nawghare, Pankaj, Jain, Shubham, Chandnani, Sanjay, Rathi, Pravin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9975986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36874717
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34369
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author Nawghare, Pankaj
Jain, Shubham
Chandnani, Sanjay
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description Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel condition. One of the theories for its etiopathogenesis is gastrointestinal infections. Although COVID-19 primarily affects the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal involvement is also common. We have reported a case of a 28-year-old male who presented with bloody diarrhea, diagnosed with acute severe ulcerative colitis, triggered by COVID-19 infection after known triggers were excluded.
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spelling pubmed-99759862023-03-02 A Case of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis Triggered by COVID-19 Infection Nawghare, Pankaj Jain, Shubham Chandnani, Sanjay Rathi, Pravin Cureus Emergency Medicine Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel condition. One of the theories for its etiopathogenesis is gastrointestinal infections. Although COVID-19 primarily affects the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal involvement is also common. We have reported a case of a 28-year-old male who presented with bloody diarrhea, diagnosed with acute severe ulcerative colitis, triggered by COVID-19 infection after known triggers were excluded. Cureus 2023-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9975986/ /pubmed/36874717 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34369 Text en Copyright © 2023, Nawghare 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 Emergency Medicine
Nawghare, Pankaj
Jain, Shubham
Chandnani, Sanjay
Rathi, Pravin
A Case of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis Triggered by COVID-19 Infection
title A Case of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis Triggered by COVID-19 Infection
title_full A Case of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis Triggered by COVID-19 Infection
title_fullStr A Case of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis Triggered by COVID-19 Infection
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title_short A Case of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis Triggered by COVID-19 Infection
title_sort case of acute severe ulcerative colitis triggered by covid-19 infection
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9975986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36874717
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34369
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