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Case Reports
. 2020 Jul;20(5):1026-1027.
doi: 10.1016/j.pan.2020.05.003. Epub 2020 May 8.

COVID-19 presenting as acute pancreatitis

Mark M Aloysius  1 , Ashwin Thatti  2 , Anjalika Gupta  3 , Nishant Sharma  4 , Pardeep Bansal  5 , Hemant Goyal  6
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Case Reports

COVID-19 presenting as acute pancreatitis

Mark M Aloysius et al. Pancreatology. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

The ongoing pandemic of Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has spread over 200 countries worldwide, affecting >2 million people and >120,000 deaths. COVID-19 is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The most common symptoms include cough, shortness of breath, and fever. However, gastrointestinal manifestations of COVID-19 are increasingly being recognized. Herein, we report a case of COVID-19 who presented with acute pancreatitis (AP) without any other risk factors.

Keywords: Acute pancreatitis; Atlanta classification; COVID-19; Pandemic; SARS-CoV-2.

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Declaration of competing interest None.

Comment in

  • Letter to the editor in response to COVID-19 presenting as acute pancreatitis.
    Gupta R, Patnaik I, Kumar A. Gupta R, et al. Pancreatology. 2020 Jul;20(5):1021-1022. doi: 10.1016/j.pan.2020.06.017. Epub 2020 Jul 1. Pancreatology. 2020. PMID: 32651079 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
  • Acute Pancreatitis During COVID-19 Pneumonia.
    Shinohara T, Otani A, Yamashita M, Wakimoto Y, Jubishi D, Okamoto K, Kanno Y, Ikeda M, Ishigaki K, Nakai Y, Harada S, Okugawa S, Koike K, Moriya K. Shinohara T, et al. Pancreas. 2020 Nov/Dec;49(10):e106-e108. doi: 10.1097/MPA.0000000000001695. Pancreas. 2020. PMID: 33122537 No abstract available.

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