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- Pulmonary symptoms are the main signs of COVID-19, but the disease can also cause various gastrointestinal issues, like abdominal pain and diarrhea.
- A case is reported of a healthy 71-year-old man who experienced severe abdominal pain and was found to have a perforated viscus and septic shock due to COVID-19.
- The report emphasizes the need to recognize these serious complications of COVID-19 to enhance patient care and outcomes.
Article Abstract
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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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9060744 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23725 | DOI Listing |
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