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COVID-19 Mimicking Acute Colitis

급성 대장염과 유사한 신종코로나 감염 1예

  • Park, Jaeseok (Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Fatima Hospital) ;
  • Jung, Jaekwon (Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Fatima Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Hyunsoo (Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Fatima Hospital) ;
  • Park, Changkeun (Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Fatima Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Daejin (Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Fatima Hospital) ;
  • Lee, Jaekwang (Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Fatima Hospital) ;
  • Ryu, Hanjun (Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Fatima Hospital)
  • Published : 20210000

Abstract

On 11 February, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 was a novel coronavirus disease first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. COVID-19 is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The complete clinical picture is not fully known. Illness ranges from mild to fatal. The common symptoms include fever, cough, and dyspnea usually developing 2-14 days after exposure. However, diarrhea was present in a few patients with COVID-19. We report a case of COVID-19 mimicking acute colitis.

COVID-19는 주로 발열 및 호흡기 증상을 보이는 신종 감염 질환이다. 그러나 저자들은 전형적인 급성 대장염과 유사한 복통 및 설사를 나타내는 COVID-19에 감염된 증례를 경험하였다. 그러므로 COVID-19의 세계적 유행이 발생하고 지역사회 감염이 확대되는 현재 상황에서 병인이 명확하지 않는 설사와 임상 경과와 일치하지 않는 발열이 발생한다면 COVID-19에 의한 장염일 가능성을 배제해야 함을 강조하는 바이다.

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