The hidden dangers of SARS-CoV-2 testing
Advances in Digestive Medicine
; 10(1):43-45, 2023.
Article
in English
| EMBASE | ID: covidwho-2293656
ABSTRACT
A foreign body can be intentionally or accidentally ingested. Timing of endoscopy relies on foreign body shape and size, location in gastrointestinal tract, patient's clinical conditions, occurrence of symptoms or onset of complications. In this short case, we present a middle age woman, who accidentally swallowed a portion of a nasopharyngeal swab half-broken during a diagnostic test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was promptly performed to prevent the swab from crossing the pylorus leading to serious complications and, therefore, risk of surgical intervention. The broken nasopharyngeal swab was detected in the gastric body, and immediately removed with a foreign body forceps. Our hospital performs many nasopharyngeal swabs and to our knowledge, this is only the second reported swab ingestion during SARS-CoV-2 test.Copyright © 2021 The Gastroenterological Society of Taiwan, The Digestive Endoscopy Society of Taiwan and Taiwan Association for the Study of the Liver.
endoscopia; endoscopy/SARS-CoV-2; SARS-CoV-2; teste; testing; adult; article; autopsy; case report; clinical article; computer assisted tomography; COVID-19 testing; endoscopy; female; foreign body aspiration; gastrointestinal endoscopy; gastrointestinal tract; human; ingestion; intensive care unit; middle aged; nasopharyngeal swab; palliative therapy; polymerase chain reaction; polypectomy; pylorus; SARS coronavirus; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; stomach corpus; wheezing; forceps; SARS coronavirus 2 nucleic acid test kit; swab (sampler)
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Advances in Digestive Medicine
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2023
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