Ischemic Colitis in a Patient with Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia

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...

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Main Authors: Ilona Krejčová, Alena Berková, Laura Kvasnicová, Petr Vlček, Lenka Veverková, Igor Penka, Dušan Zoufalý, Vladimír Červeňák
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2022-08-01
Series:Case Reports in Gastroenterology
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Online Access:https://beta.karger.com/Article/FullText/525840
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1662-0631