Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2020)

Abdominal Visceral Infarction in 3 Patients with COVID-19

  • Giulia Besutti,
  • Riccardo Bonacini,
  • Valentina Iotti,
  • Giulia Marini,
  • Nicoletta Riva,
  • Giovanni Dolci,
  • Mariarosa Maiorana,
  • Lucia Spaggiari,
  • Filippo Monelli,
  • Guido Ligabue,
  • Giovanni Guaraldi,
  • Paolo Giorgi Rossi,
  • Pierpaolo Pattacini,
  • Marco Massari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2608.201161
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 8
pp. 1926 – 1928

Abstract

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A high incidence of thrombotic events has been reported in patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. We report 3 clinical cases of patients in Italy with COVID-19 who developed abdominal viscera infarction, demonstrated by computed tomography.

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