ABDOMINAL ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTICS AT COVID-19

Abstract

COVID-19 affects multiple systems, manifesting itself in the most diverse clinical or associated forms. The world medical community is still learning about this entity and a pandemic as a whole. The literature has publications that formalize the abdominal manifestations of COVID-19, as well as its most adequate diagnostic methods. Ultrasonography stands out as a method of diagnosis and auxiliary procedures in therapeutics. The purpose of this is to review and study abdominal ultrasound findings in patients with COVID-19. This is a narrative literature review, searching the Pubmed, Scielo and LILACS database, using the following descriptors: ultrasonography, COVID-19 and abdomen. All articles with ultrasound images published since December 2019 were included. Abdominal ultrasound images of cases diagnosed with COVID-19 were included. A B-mode analysis, associated with Doppler, is associated with the vascular involvement characteristic of this viral entity. Among the recent publications on the subject, changes related to portal venous gas due to mesenteric vascular injury, portal vein thrombosis, distended gallbladder, biliary stasis, diffusely bulky pancreas without focal lesions or gallstones, areas of renal infarction, are evidenced. ascites, thickening of the intestinal wall, interstitial and / or hemorrhagic cystitis. The mastery of ultrasound findings related to COVID-19 abdominal changes, if necessary, as an urgent contemporary need