Dysentery as the First Manifestation of Severe COVID-19

Alec Seidman-Sorsby; Alberto Moscona-Nissan; Mayte Cruz-Zermeño; Alberto González-Chávez

doi:10.7759/cureus.20368

Dysentery as the First Manifestation of Severe COVID-19

Cureus. 2021 Dec 12;13(12):e20368. doi: 10.7759/cureus.20368. eCollection 2021 Dec.

Authors

Alec Seidman-Sorsby¹, Alberto Moscona-Nissan¹, Mayte Cruz-Zermeño¹, Alberto González-Chávez²

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, MEX.
² General Surgery, Hospital Español, Mexico City, MEX.

Abstract

The presence of dysentery as the first manifestation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is highly atypical and it may present with concomitant respiratory symptoms or as a single manifestation. Diagnosis is often difficult due to its clinical presentation similar to gastrointestinal diseases, such as infectious diarrhea. We present a case of a 35-year-old male who presented with dysentery as the first manifestation of severe COVID-19.

Keywords: bloody diarrhea; clinical infectious medicine; covid 19; dysentery; surgical case report.

Publication types

Case Reports