{"id":11257,"date":"2021-03-03T10:16:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T10:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2021-07-19T09:26:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T09:26:05","slug":"could-flank-pain-be-an-indicator-of-covid-19-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11257","title":{"rendered":"Original Research: Could flank pain be an indicator of COVID-19 infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Emrullah Durmus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siirt Training and Research Hospital, Department of Urology, Siirt, Turkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fesih Ok<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00d6mer Erdogan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Semih Saglik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords:&nbsp;<\/strong>COVID-19, urology, flank pain, abdomen CT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><br>We describe the incidental detection of patients infiltrates due to COVID-19 in lung basal sections in patients undergoing abdominal computed tomography (CT) with flank pain attending the urology outpatient clinic during the current pandemic.<br><strong>Methods<\/strong><br>We retrospectively analysed 276 patients admitted to the Siirt Training and Research Hospital Urology outpatients clinic between 15 March 2020 and 9 August 2020 with a complaint of flank pain and undergoing non-contrast abdominal CT. A total of 10 patients with COVID-19 compatible findings in CT were defined as the study group. A control group was formed from 10 patients with only urological pathologies (kidney stones, ureteral stones, and hydronephrosis) without a COVID-19 compatible appearance on CT.<br><strong>Results<\/strong><br>Ten (3.6 %) patients were identified with COVID-19 and pneumonic infiltrations in the basal regions of the lungs; diagnosis was made by cross-sectional abdominal CT. The visual analog scale (VAS) score of flank pain was significantly higher in the control group (p&lt;0.001); these subjects had urological pathology and no evidence of COVID-19 in the basal regions of the lungs on abdominal CT. There were no signs of COVID-19 disease detected during the admissions procedure in the urology outpatient clinic, including fever, cough, and shortness of breath.<br><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><br>During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to consider a diagnosis of COVID_19 in patients reporting non-severe flank pain if no urological pathology is evident on abdominal CT scans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Journal Identifiers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>eISSN: 1995-7262<br>print ISSN: 1995-7262<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emrullah Durmus Siirt Training and Research Hospital, Department of Urology, Siirt, Turkey Fesih Ok \u00d6mer Erdogan Semih Saglik Keywords:&nbsp;COVID-19, urology, flank pain, abdomen CT Abstract BackgroundWe describe the incidental detection of patients infiltrates due to COVID-19 in lung basal sections in patients undergoing abdominal computed tomography (CT) with flank pain attending the urology outpatient clinic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,63],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11553,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions\/11553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}