COVID-19 and Acute Pancreatitis: A Case Report

Atousa Hakamifard; Tahereh  Gholipur-Shahraki

doi:10.18502/acta.v59i8.7260

Atousa Hakamifard Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Tahereh Gholipur-Shahraki Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/acta.v59i8.7260

Keywords: Pancreatitis; Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19); Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2); Pneumonia

Abstract

Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) became a serious public health problem and caused a rapid pandemic. Fever, dry cough, and dyspnea are the most common symptoms of COVID-19. In addition to the respiratory symptoms, gastrointestinal manifestations of COVID-19 are also increasingly recognized. Herein, the authors present a patient with COVID-19 complicated with acute pancreatitis.