Can COVID 19 present like appendicitis?

• Main Authors: Ahmed Abdalhadi, Mohammed Alkhatib, Ahmad Y. Mismar, Waleed Awouda, Loai Albarqouni
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
• Series: IDCases
• Subjects: COVID-19; Appendicitis; Pneumonia; Pandemic; ACE2
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214250920301682

Coronavirus disease -19 is a novel pandemic contagious respiratory infection that frequently presents with fever and dry cough. However, it can present with other rare symptoms. As this disease is a new disease, the full picture of the disease presentation is not yet clear, and it might present with symptoms and signs of other common diseases. Here, we report a 40 year old female who presented with acute onset nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite and vague abdominal pain as a clinical picture of appendicitis, but her CT abdomen image showed normal appendix, bilateral patchy peripheral lung basal consolidation, and ground-glass attenuation, so she was tested for coronavirus disease-19, which was positive.