Presentation
Acute severe abdominal pain in a patient with COVID-19 RT-PCR positive test and pneumonia.
Patient Data
Age: 15 years
Gender: Male
From the case:
Acute pancreatitis
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- diffuse enlargement with irregular pancreatic outline accompanied by peripancreatic fat stranding and spread of an inflammatory exudate to the lesser sac, left paracolic gutter and retroperitoneal space
- the adjacent fourth segment of the duodenum and proximal jejunal loop demonstrates mural thickening, in keeping with reactive changes
- no signs of necrosis
- left-sided pleural effusion
Case Discussion
Findings are compatible with acute pancreatitis and confirmed biochemically with markedly elevated amylase and lipase.
The recent case was a healthy person with no past history of a specific disease, laboratory, or metabolic abnormalities and just received five doses of remdesivir for five days before the admission because of COVID-19 pulmonary infiltrations.
Currently, the association between COVID-19 and acute pancreatitis has not been firmly demonstrated in the literature 1.
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