Citas bibligráficas
León, S., (2021). Abdomen agudo como un síntoma precoz de Covid- 19: un caso artículo de revisión [Tesis, Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12759/7292
León, S., Abdomen agudo como un síntoma precoz de Covid- 19: un caso artículo de revisión [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego; 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12759/7292
@misc{renati/372387,
title = "Abdomen agudo como un síntoma precoz de Covid- 19: un caso artículo de revisión",
author = "León Gordillo, Sandra Elizabeth",
publisher = "Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego",
year = "2021"
}
COVID-19, the cause of a global health emergency, causes predominantly respiratory symptoms; however, recent studies have shown that patients may present with other extrapulmonary symptoms such as abdominal pain, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, even without presenting respiratory tract symptoms. The mechanism by which patients present abdominal symptoms could be explained due to the presence of ACE-2 receptors in the intestine, making it susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2 and generating hyperinflammation and cytokine storm, due to the fact that the intestine is the largest immune organ. For this reason, it is essential to create a strategy to identify COVID-19 infection in a timely manner, performing a chest CT at the same time as an abdominal CT for an early diagnosis. Objective: To review the literature in relation to the acute abdomen as an early symptom of COVID-19. Methods: A bibliographic search was carried out in the period between January and October 2020 using as key terms COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, abdominal pain, acute abdomen. The databases used were Pubmed and LILACS, articles in English and Spanish were selected. Conclusions: Unexplained abdominal pain should be considered as a criterion in the pre-triage procedure. This will potentially reduce the risk of transmission to other patients and hospital staff, since more cases of patients with abdominal pain have been presented since the beginning or in the first days as part of the clinical picture of COVID-19, being in its majority of cases abdominal symptoms that are self-limited without the need for specific interventions. Keywords: acute abdomen; SARS-CoV-2; abdominal pain; Coronavirus disease 2019-nCoV; COVID-19.
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