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, cilt.25, sa.4, ss.232-234, 2021 (ESCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/1744-1633.12526
  • Dergi Adı: SURGICAL PRACTICE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, EMBASE
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.232-234
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.