Cec and You Shall Find: Cecal Perforation in a Patient with COVID-19

Dig Dis Sci. 2021 Nov;66(11):3731-3734. doi: 10.1007/s10620-020-06810-5. Epub 2021 Jan 25.

Authors

Ioana Baiu¹, Erna Forgó², Cindy Kin¹, Thomas G Weiser³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, H3563, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
² Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, L235, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, H3563, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. tweiser@stanford.edu.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
COVID-19 / complications*
Cecal Diseases / complications
Cecal Diseases / pathology*
Cecum / pathology*
Clostridioides difficile
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / drug therapy
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / microbiology
Humans
Intestinal Perforation / complications*
Intestinal Perforation / surgery
Male
SARS-CoV-2*
Vancomycin / therapeutic use

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Vancomycin