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ArticleCureus2022

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

Abdulrahman S Almulhim, Alaa Alghazzi, Ali A Almohammed Saleh, Ahmed H Alsulaiman, Lojain A Alnosair, Fatimah Y Alghareeb

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Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors.

Abdulrahman S AlmulhimGeneral Surgery, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, SAU.
Alaa AlghazziSurgery, King Fahad General Hospital, Hofuf, SAU.
Ali A Almohammed SalehMedicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, SAU.
Ahmed H AlsulaimanMedicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, SAU.
Lojain A AlnosairMedicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, SAU.
Fatimah Y AlghareebGeneral Surgery, King Fahad General Hospital, Al-Ahsa, SAU.

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6 · The paper itself

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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covid 19gastrointestinal perforationmedical icumulti-organ dysfunctionsars-cov 2 infection

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PMCPMC9060744

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