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09.05.2020 | COVID-19 | Letter to the Editor
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A Unique Presentation of COVID-19 in a Patient Post Sleeve Gastrectomy
verfasst von:
Catharine Taube, Sami Mansour, Sherif Hakky
Erschienen in:
Obesity Surgery
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Ausgabe 9/2020
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Excerpt
We present a case of a 35-year-old female who presented to the accident and emergency department of our university teaching hospital in London, one of the worst hit cities in Europe with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. She complained of a 6-day history of progressive vomiting and epigastric pain culminating in an inability to hold down any fluids. This was on a background of an uneventful laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for management of morbid obesity that was performed 6 weeks prior. Additional past medical history includes insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. …