Year 2021 / Volume 113 / Number 2
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Gastric ulcers with upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2021.7759/2020

Francisco Pérez Roldán, Zaida Malik Javed, Jose Luis Yagüe Compadre, María del Carmen Navarro López, David Rodríguez-Bobada Caraballo, Icíar Fernández Visier, Mercedes Burgos Andeliz, Pedro Santiago González Carro,

Abstract
A new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was identified earlier this year and spread rapidly globally. The clinical manifestations that it produces have gradually become known and the typical clinical picture is respiratory. Although gastrointestinal symptoms have been described in several communications, information on endoscopic findings in these patients is practically zero. We describe two cases of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with COVID-19. In both cases, the presence of gastric ulcers was identified in an unusual location, the gastric fundus. After ruling out malignancy, our suspicion was an ischemic etiology that is consistent with terminal gastric vascularization at the gastric fundus level and increased thrombotic phenomena in patients with COVID-19.
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08/12/2021 19:03:35
Interesante estudio, muy agradecido


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Pérez Roldán F, Malik Javed Z, Yagüe Compadre J, Navarro López M, Rodríguez-Bobada Caraballo D, Fernández Visier I, et all. Gastric ulcers with upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2. 7759/2020


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Received: 25/12/2020

Accepted: 29/12/2020

Online First: 22/01/2021

Published: 08/02/2021

Article Online First time: 28 days

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