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Ischemic Colitis in a Patient with Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia

Authors

KREJČOVÁ Ilona BERKOVÁ Alena KVASNICOVÁ Laura VLČEK Petr VEVERKOVÁ Lenka PENKA Igor ZOUFALÝ Dušan ČERVEŇÁK Vladimír

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Case Reports in Gastroenterology
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Web https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/525840
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000525840
Keywords COVID-19; Ischemic colitis; Thrombembolism; Acute abdomen
Description At the time of the current COVID-19 pandemic, on a daily basis, we encountered patients suffering from various manifestations of this infection. The most common are respiratory symptoms. Many of the patients require acute hospital care, and a smaller group of them are hospitalized in intensive care units. A subset of these critically ill patients demonstrates clinically remarkable hypercoagulability and thus a predisposition to venous and arterial thromboembolism, manifested by thrombotic events ranging from acute pulmonary embolism and splanchnic vascular ischemia to extremity ischemia. The article describes a case of a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia complicated by massive bleeding into the gastrointestinal tract due to ischemic enterocolitis in connection with COVID-19 infection.
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