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ArticleThe Journal of international medical research2020

Coronavirus disease 19 with gastrointestinal symptoms as initial manifestations: a case report.

Chun-Yang Wu, Xiao-Pin Yu, Ada Hoi Yan Ma, Li-Ping Wang, Nai-Bin Yang, Guo-Xiang Li, Jie-Jun Shi, Guo-Qing Qian

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Article in The Journal of international medical research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Extrapulmonary onset manifestations of COVID-19.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chun-Yang WuDepartment of General Internal Medicine, Ningbo City First Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.
Xiao-Pin YuNingbo City First Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.
Ada Hoi Yan MaNottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.
Li-Ping WangDepartment of General Internal Medicine, Ningbo City First Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.
Nai-Bin YangDepartment of General Internal Medicine, Ningbo City First Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.
Guo-Xiang LiDepartment of General Internal Medicine, Ningbo City First Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.
Jie-Jun ShiDepartment of General Internal Medicine, Ningbo City First Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.
Guo-Qing QianDepartment of General Internal Medicine, Ningbo City First Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2427-8042
Ningbo First Hospital · CNUniversity of Nottingham Ningbo China · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in December 2019, an epidemic has spread rapidly worldwide. COVID-19 is caused by the highly infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. A 42-year-old woman presented to hospital who was suffering from epigastric discomfort and dyspepsia for the past 5 days. Before the onset of symptoms, she was healthy, and had no travel history to Wuhan or contact with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases. An examination showed chronic superficial gastritis with erosion and esophagitis. Enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the abdomen showed a lesion in the right lower lobe of the lungs. Chest computed tomography showed multiple ground-glass opacity in the lungs. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction was negative for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. There was no improvement after antibiotic treatment. Polymerase chain reaction performed 2 days later was positive and she was diagnosed with COVID-19. After several days of antiviral and symptomatic treatments, her symptoms improved and she was discharged. None of the medical staff were infected. Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are nonspecific, making differentiating it from other diseases difficult. This case shows the sequence in which symptoms developed in a patient with COVID-19 with gastrointestinal symptoms as initial manifestations.

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AdultBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19FemaleGastrointestinal DiseasesHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralPrognosisSARS-CoV-2angiotensin-converting enzyme 2COVID-19dyspepsiagastrointestinal symptomslungsreverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reactionsevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2

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PMID32910698
PMCPMC7484601
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