Acute appendicitis during the clinical course of COVID-19 in a 13-year-old boy: Complication or coincidental?

Nurullayev E., GÖRDÜ B., ÖZSÜREKCİ Y., HALİLOĞLU M., SOYER T.

SURGICAL PRACTICE, vol.25, no.4, pp.232-234, 2021 (ESCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 25 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Doi Number: 10.1111/1744-1633.12526
  • Journal Name: SURGICAL PRACTICE
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, EMBASE
  • Page Numbers: pp.232-234
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Gastrointestinal symptoms appear to be one of the most common presentations of SARS-CoV-2 infection, later named COVID-19. The symptoms such as nausea, emesis, abdominal pain, and diarrhoea may be recognised as either a finding of COVID-19 or prominent presentation of multi-inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). COVID-19 may present with acute appendicitis and/or may mimic its clinical findings. Although, coexistence of acute appendicitis and COVID-19 has been well documented, it is not clear whether appendicitis is a complication of COVID-19 or coincidence in children. A 13-year-old boy who developed acute appendicitis during the clinical course of COVID-19 is presented to discuss the possibility of causal relationship between appendicitis and COVID-19 in children.