Acute Pancreatitis as a Possible Unusual Manifestation of COVID-19 in Children

Niloufar Bineshfar; Alireza Mirahmadi; Fereshteh Karbasian; Elham Pourbakhtyaran; Abdollah Karimi; Mehdi Sarafi

doi:10.1155/2021/6616211

Acute Pancreatitis as a Possible Unusual Manifestation of COVID-19 in Children

Case Rep Pediatr. 2021 Feb 2:2021:6616211. doi: 10.1155/2021/6616211. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Niloufar Bineshfar¹, Alireza Mirahmadi¹, Fereshteh Karbasian², Elham Pourbakhtyaran³, Abdollah Karimi⁴, Mehdi Sarafi⁵

Affiliations

¹ Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
² Department of Pediatrics Emergency, Mofid Children's Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Pediatric Specialist, Emergency Department, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁴ Pediatric Infections Research Center, Mofid Children's Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁵ Pediatric Surgery Research Center, Research Institute for Children's Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread throughout the world causing problems for millions of people. Symptoms of COVID-19 in pediatric patients include both respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms. The most common symptoms are fever, cough, and fatigue. In this report, we describe a case of a previously well 14-year-old boy, who presented to our emergency department with a complaint of abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting without fever or respiratory symptoms. He was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis based on an abnormal amylase level and abdomen computed tomography (CT) and later found to be infected by SARS-CoV-2, by a positive reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test.

Publication types

Case Reports