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ArticleGerms2022

Association of hiccup and SARS-CoV-2 infection with the administration of dexamethasone: a case report.

Victoria Bîrluţiu, Ciprian Radu Şofariu

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Article in Germs, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Victoria BîrluţiuAssoc. Prof., MD, PhD, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Medicine Sibiu, Academic Emergency Hospital Sibiu - Infectious Diseases Clinic, Str. Lucian Blaga, Nr. 2A, Sibiu, 550169, Romania.
Ciprian Radu ŞofariuMD, PhD, Children's Neurological Diseases Research Centre and Telemedicine (CEFORATEN) of the Paediatric Hospital Sibiu, Str. Pompeiu Onofreiu, Nr. 2-4, Sibiu, 550166, Romania.
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu · RO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: Among the less common symptoms associated with the SARS-CoV-2 infection the attention is drawn by a persistent hiccup that was recently quoted in the literature. Case report: We present the case of a 46-year-old Caucasian male patient hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the Academic Emergency Hospital Sibiu, Romania with laboratory confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 infection with a positive result of real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay from nasopharyngeal swabs, that during the disease course developed persistent hiccup associated with the administration of cortisone therapy, dexamethasone. A decision to stop the treatment with cortisone preparations was made, with the disappearance of the hiccup after 36 hours. Conclusions: From our experience, other cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection that we managed during these months of the pandemic, with mild or severe forms of the disease, showed hiccup under treatment with dexamethasone, an event also described in other medical conditions under the same treatment and improved at its cessation or when replaced by methylprednisolone.

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COVID-19dexamethasonehiccupSARS-CoV-2 infection

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PMID35601950
PMCPMC9113683
OpenAlexW4229078295

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