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- Title
Singulto como síntoma inicial de infección por SARS-CoV-2.
- Authors
Boland-Rodríguez, Estefanía; Estrada-Jaime, Mario Alberto; Soto-Salazar, Laura Gabriela
- Abstract
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 was first described in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, declared as a pandemic by the WHO since March 11, 2020. The most common presenting symptoms are cough, fever, dyspnea and myalgia; however, every day cases are described where the patient debuts with atypical symptoms. CLINICAL CASE: A 54-year-old male patient with COVID-19 whose initial symptom was singultus (hiccups). CONCLUSIONS: Persistent hiccups is an atypical presentation of pneumonia, especially in elderly patients. Despite the fact that hiccups has many possible etiologies, due to COVID-19 pandemic and its most common manifestation being atypical pneumonia, any patient who develops persistent singultus should be further studied to ruled out SARS-CoV-2 infection. This could identify early cases of COVID-19, decreasing the contagion rate and increasing prognosis.
- Publication
Medicina Interna de Mexico, 2020, Vol 36, Issue 5, p745
- ISSN
0186-4866
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24245/mim.v36i5.4380