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Case Report
Idiopathic Pancreatitis, Newly Diagnosed Diabetes Mellitus I, and Hypothyroidism in a Young Patient with Recent COVID-19 Infection
Author(s): Amin Elfituri*, Firas Warda, Leena Shahla and Faisal Bukeirat
We present a young patient who came into the emergency department initially with abdominal pain, diagnosed with
pancreatitis, but was found to have diabetic ketoacidosis, and later was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. We suspected
the patient's diagnoses to be related to autoimmunity that was induced by his recent COVID-19 infection. Our case
examines the relationship between COVID-19 and autoimmunity with special attention to the pancreas... View More»