Introduction
The Coronavirus belongs to a family of RNA viruses that can cause respiratory infection, with the possibility of gastrointestinal manifestations in approximately 5—50% of the cases.
Objective
To report a surgical case with a diagnosis of COVID-19 that developed acute perforated abdomen and pneumothorax.
Case report
This was an 80-year-old female patient with respiratory symptoms, with dry cough and fever and diffuse abdominal pain with signs of peritonitis. She had leukocytosis, kidney dysfunction and an increase in D-dimer with positive PCR for COVID. Computed tomography of the chest and abdomen showed pneumothorax on the right and extensive pneumoperitoneum.
Conclusion
The presentation of COVID-19 with severe pulmonary and abdominal complications requires specialized and emergency treatments, but it has high mortality rates.
A 58-year-old man reported sudden-onset binocular double vision that appeared 3 days earlier. He denied history of headache/cervical pain or trauma. He had a medical history of well-controlled diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidaemia. Neurological examination revealed a left-sided ptosis and binocular horizontal diplopia in dextroversion without apparent extraocular-muscle paresis or pupillary involvement. Other cranial nerves were spared as well as motor, sensory and coordination systems. There were no signs of ocular erythema, proptosis or palpable orbital mass. Brain MR angiography revealed a crescent-shaped mural hyperintensity in left internal carotid artery (ICA) at skull base, extending to intrapetrous segment, with reduced calibre and flow, suggesting a left ICA dissection. The patient was started on antiaggregation therapy. A year later he was asymptomatic and CT angiography confirmed ICA recanalisation.
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