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Case Rep Pediatr
. 2021 Feb 2;2021:6616211.
doi: 10.1155/2021/6616211. eCollection 2021.
Acute Pancreatitis as a Possible Unusual Manifestation of COVID-19 in Children
Niloufar Bineshfar[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Alireza Mirahmadi[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Fereshteh Karbasian[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Elham Pourbakhtyaran[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Abdollah Karimi[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Mehdi Sarafi[SUP] 5 [/SUP]
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread throughout the world causing problems for millions of people. Symptoms of COVID-19 in pediatric patients include both respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms. The most common symptoms are fever, cough, and fatigue. In this report, we describe a case of a previously well 14-year-old boy, who presented to our emergency department with a complaint of abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting without fever or respiratory symptoms. He was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis based on an abnormal amylase level and abdomen computed tomography (CT) and later found to be infected by SARS-CoV-2, by a positive reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test.
. 2021 Feb 2;2021:6616211.
doi: 10.1155/2021/6616211. eCollection 2021.
Acute Pancreatitis as a Possible Unusual Manifestation of COVID-19 in Children
Niloufar Bineshfar[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Alireza Mirahmadi[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Fereshteh Karbasian[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Elham Pourbakhtyaran[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Abdollah Karimi[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Mehdi Sarafi[SUP] 5 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33575053
- PMCID: PMC7860969
- DOI: 10.1155/2021/6616211
Abstract
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread throughout the world causing problems for millions of people. Symptoms of COVID-19 in pediatric patients include both respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms. The most common symptoms are fever, cough, and fatigue. In this report, we describe a case of a previously well 14-year-old boy, who presented to our emergency department with a complaint of abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting without fever or respiratory symptoms. He was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis based on an abnormal amylase level and abdomen computed tomography (CT) and later found to be infected by SARS-CoV-2, by a positive reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test.