COVID-19 HASTASINDA AKALKÜLÖZ AKUT PANKREATİT ; NADİR BİR OLGU SUNUMU

Abstract

Although COVID-19 infection, declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, seems to affect the primary respiratory system, the importance and recognition of gastrointestinal symptoms are gradually increasing. In our case, we aimed to present a patient who presented with signs of acute pancreatitis concurrent with COVID-19 infection. A 75-year-old female patient, known to have hypertension and coronary artery disease, was admitted to the emergency department with the complaint of generation-style epigastric pain , nausea and dyspnoea. The patient, who was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis by laboratory values and imaging methods, was taken to intensive care due to positive COVID-19 test and oxygen demand. Pancreatitis was seen with COVID-19 infection in the patient without risk factors for pancreatitis.This case suggests hypotheses that COVID-19 could be a new viral pancreatitis agent or increase the severity of an existing pancreatitis or trigger autoimmunity independent of them. numerous studies on covid-19 patients are needed to support this view.