Annals of surgery
Aminian, Ali; Safari, Saeed; Razeghian-Jahromi, Abdolali; Ghorbani, Mohammad; Delaney, Conor P.
Abstract
Little is known about surgical practice in the initial phase of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global crisis. This is a retrospective case series of 4 surgical patients (cholecystectomy, hernia repair, gastric bypass, and hysterectomy) who developed perioperative complications in the first few weeks of COVID-19 outbreak in Tehran, Iran in the month of February 2020. COVID-19 can complicate the perioperative course with diagnostic challenge and a high potential fatality rate. In locations with widespread infections and limited resources, the risk of elective surgical procedures for index patient and community may outweigh the benefit.
Keywords
Clinical aspects, diagnosis, treatment