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cord-314880-0cfq52hn	Meireles, Pedro Antunes	Acalculous Acute Pancreatitis in a COVID-19 Patient	2020-05-13		.txt	text/plain	803	53	43	An increase in pancreatic enzymes has been increasingly recognized in patients with COVID-19, but little is known about the real prevalence of acute pancreatitis in this population. We report a case of acute pancreatitis in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Liu et al [1] showed an increase in amylase and lipase in a series of 121 patients admitted with COVID-19 pneumonia, suggesting some degree of pancreatic injury in these patients. Similarly, Anand et al [3] have reported the case of a 59-year-old female patient who was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis based on typical abdominal pain and imaging findings 10 days after positive PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. The authors report a case of acute pancreatitis in a COVID-19 patient, highlighting the importance of considering SARS-CoV-2 as a new aetiological agent of acute viral pancreatitis. We suggest that pancreatic enzymes should be evaluated in COVID-19 in-patients presenting with gastrointestinal symptoms, since it could reveal unrecognized pancreatic involvement in this population.	./cache/cord-314880-0cfq52hn.txt	./txt/cord-314880-0cfq52hn.txt