Peritoneal effusion as unusual complication post COVID 19 infection

Introduction: COVID 19 is a new virus appeared in the late of 2019, and spread widely through the world, causing respiratory symptoms and sometimes could cause digestive manifestations.

Case presentation: We reported a case of a 72 years old women presented with a complaint of dry cough, dyspnea and swollen abdomen, which she diagnosed with COVID19 and her medical history showed type 2 diabetes mellitus and acute kidney injury one month prior to her presentation. CT-abdomen showed Ascites and slightly hepatomegaly then we performed prednisolone antibiotics medication. After a week the Ascites decreased and her condition was good and stable.

Discussion: Few similar cases have been reported in the literature as case reports, but our article reports the first case report from Syria, which may increase the clinical awareness towards rare complications of COVID19 infection among Syrian clinical doctors, especially pulmonologists.

Conclusion: The peritoneal effusion consider as s rare digestive manifestation of COVID19 that Clinical doctors should take aware off.