Acute Pancreatitis may Occur in COVID-19 Patients with Clearance of SARS-CoV-2 in Lung: A Case Report

Abstract Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is mostly causes lung damages, but also lead to gastroenterology injury. SARS-CoV-2 - associated acute pancreatitis has been reported, however, clearance of SARS-CoV-2 and the pancreatitis was not clear.Case presentation: A 62 year old diabetic female patient suffer from coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) and detection of SARS-CoV-2 turned negative on day 11 and day 12 in sputum. Two days latter, the patient was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis. Through the support treatment, the patient got better and discharged from our hospital 18 days later.Conclusions: Our case provided an initial view of SARS-CoV-2 infection with acute pancreatitis and the acute pancreatitis may occur in COVID-19 patients with clearance of SARS-CoV-2 in lung..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

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2020

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ResearchSquare.com - (2020) vom: 24. Aug. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2020

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhao, Hong [VerfasserIn]
Su, Junwei [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Kaijin [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Qiu, Yunqing [VerfasserIn]
Sheng, Jifang [VerfasserIn]

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-62816/v1

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XRA034586822