Open AccessDifficulty in diagnosing mild cases of COVID‐19 without respiratory symptoms during the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic: Careful monitoring needed for patients with persistent upper gastrointestinal symptoms
Author(s) -
Saito Hiroaki,
Ozaki Akihiko,
Mizuno Yasuhiro,
Todo Kozo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2050-0904
DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.3248
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , pandemic , coronavirus , respiratory system , pneumonia , betacoronavirus , intensive care medicine , virology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
Gastrointestinal symptoms have been reported to occur with COVID infection, and clinicians in COVID‐19‐endemic areas should suspect COVID‐19 infection in patients even if they have no noticeable respiratory symptoms and only gastrointestinal symptoms.