Case Report
Year: 2021 | Month: August | Volume: 11 | Issue: 8 | Pages: 198-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20210829
Spontaneous Bowel Perforation - A Rare and Fatal Complication in COVID-19 Patients: Case Report
Lamya Zaher Al Aamri1, Mohammed Muzamil1, Nasser Alawaid1, Pratap Kumar Shinde2
1Department of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos Hospital, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman
2Department of Surgery, Sultan Qaboos Hospital, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman
Corresponding Author: Lamya Zaher Al Aamri
ABSTRACT
Coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19) is a global pandemic and highly infectious disease, with most of the symptoms being related to the respiratory tract. However, more extrapulmonary symptoms and complications are evolving and directly associated with COVID- 19 pathogenesis. A recognized clinical manifestation of COVID-19 is gastrointestinal and hepatic involvement. We reported a middle-aged man admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with severe COVID-19 pneumonia; he developed spontaneous bowel perforation. He had not received tocilizumab as the latter was reported to be associated with bowel perforation.
Key words: Coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19, bowel perforation.