Coronavirus disease 2019 and the pancreas

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has led to a world-wide pandemic since its onset in December of 2019. Although, a primary respiratory pathogen, over the ensuing period, its extra-pulmonary effects have come to the forefront. The virus, having multi-organ tropism, has been shown to affect a host of other organs beyond the lung, including the pancreas. The data on pancreatic involvement by COVID-19, however, have been limited. Moreover, whether the effects on the pancreas are due to the direct effects of the virus or is just an epi-phenomenon is debatable. The prevalence of pancreatic injury and degree of injury are the other issues that need to be addressed. Pancreatic cancer has a dismal prognosis and the management of the same in the COVID era needs to be tailored assessing the risk-benefit ratio for the same. Additionally, pancreatic surgery increases not only the morbidity of the patient, but also the risk of the operator and burden on the health care system. Hence, the decision for such major procedures needs to be rationalized for optimum benefit during this pandemic. Similarly, for the endoscopist, pancreatic endoscopy needs to be carefully regulated to reduce risk to both the patient and the physician and yet deliver optimum patient care. This review gives a concise summary of various aspects of pancreatic involvement and pancreatic disease management during this pandemic.

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CommentIn: Rev Esp Enferm Dig. 2021 May;113(5):389. - PMID 33569964

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al. - 20(2020), 8 vom: 30. Dez., Seite 1567-1575

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Samanta, Jayanta [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Rohit [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Mini P [VerfasserIn]
Patnaik, Itish [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Ashok [VerfasserIn]
Kochhar, Rakesh [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Coronavirus
Journal Article
Pancreatic carcinoma
Pancreatic transplant
Pancreatitis
Review

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Date Completed 22.12.2020

Date Revised 04.06.2021

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Rev Esp Enferm Dig. 2021 May;113(5):389. - PMID 33569964

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.pan.2020.10.035

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318164868