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  • Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in December 2019, an epidemic has spread rapidly worldwide. COVID-19 is caused by the highly infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. A 42-year-old woman presented to hospital who was suffering from epigastric discomfort and dyspepsia for the past 5 days. Before the onset of symptoms, she was healthy, and had no travel history to Wuhan or contact with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases. An examination showed chronic superficial gastritis with erosion and esophagitis. Enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the abdomen showed a lesion in the right lower lobe of the lungs. Chest computed tomography showed multiple ground-glass opacity in the lungs. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction was negative for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. There was no improvement after antibiotic treatment. Polymerase chain reaction performed 2 days later was positive and she was diagnosed with COVID-19. After several days of antiviral and symptomatic treatments, her symptoms improved and she was discharged. None of the medical staff were infected. Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are nonspecific, making differentiating it from other diseases difficult. This case shows the sequence in which symptoms developed in a patient with COVID-19 with gastrointestinal symptoms as initial manifestations.
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?:doi
  • 10.1177/0300060520952256
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?:journal
  • J_Int_Med_Res
?:license
  • cc-by-nc
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/4d3fe403ad23df5f1980dc694e273fe44e645f2f.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7484601.xml.json
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?:pmid
?:pmid
  • 32910698.0
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?:source
  • Medline; PMC
?:title
  • Coronavirus disease 19 with gastrointestinal symptoms as initial manifestations: a case report
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?:year
  • 2020-09-10

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