TY - JOUR T1 - COVID-19 with abdominal symptoms and acute abdominal pain: a guide to identification for general practice JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 358 LP - 359 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X710693 VL - 70 IS - 696 AU - Lu-Lu Zhai AU - Wei Wang AU - Lun Wu AU - Zhi-Gang Tang Y1 - 2020/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/696/358.abstract N2 - The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, previously known as 2019 new coronavirus [2019-nCoV]) appeared in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and spread rapidly throughout China and other countries.1 As of 29 March 2020, SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in a total of 634 835 cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19, previously known as novel coronavirus pneumonia [NCP]) worldwide, of which 29 957 patients have died.2 SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has caused more deaths than SARS-CoV (774 deaths worldwide) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV (858 deaths worldwide), and has become the deadliest coronavirus ever.3Several retrospective single-centre case series showed that the most common symptoms of the disease were fever, fatigue, cough, myalgia, and dyspnoea.4–6 It is worth noting that a considerable number of patients have gastrointestinal and abdominal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhoea.4–7 Wang et al4 reported that, among 138 patients, 10.1% of patients initially presented with diarrhoea and nausea. In addition, in this report, one patient was admitted to the surgical ward because of abdominal symptoms and … ER -