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  4. Persistent hiccups as an atypical presentation of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review of case reports
 
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Persistent hiccups as an atypical presentation of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review of case reports
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Author(s)
Giannos, Panagiotis
Triantafyllidis, Konstantinos Katsikas
Geropoulos, Georgios
Kechagias, Konstantinos
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Symptoms such as fever, dry cough, dyspnoea, and respiratory distress are commonly described in patients infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Recently, a growing number of cases pertained to persistent hiccups have been reported by SARS-CoV-2 infected patients. The aim of this systematic review was to screen the current literature and provide a summary of the reported cases of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients presenting with persistent hiccups. The PubMed, Scoups and Web of Science databases were searched according to PRISMA guidelines from inception until 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. Case reports or case series that provided a separate clinical description for patients with presenting complaints of persistent hiccups before or after COVID-19 diagnosis, were retrieved. The critical appraisal checklist for case reports provided by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) was employed to evaluate the overall quality of the eligible studies. We identified 13 eligible studies that included 16 patients in which presenting complaints of hiccups were reported by hospitalised and emergency department-admitted COVID-19 patients. The mean duration of hiccups was 4.6 days reported in 87% (14/16) patients. Hypertension was the most common comorbidity present in 50% (8/16) of patients followed by diabetes mellitus (4/16). Moreover, 43% (7/16) of patients received only one medication for managing the hiccups with metoclopramide (5/16) followed by chlorpromazine and baclofen (4/16) used as primary treatment. Equally, 43% of patients (7/16) received dexamethasone followed by azithromycin (5/16), ivermectin (4/16) and ceftriaxone (4/16) for managing the infection from SARS-CoV-2. The majority of patients (14/16) improved after initiation of treatment. Persistent hiccups are possibly a rare symptom clinicians may expect to encounter in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2. Although there is not ample proof to propose causation, increased awareness about the diversity of presentations of SARS-CoV-2 infection, could be crucial in the early recognition of the disease.
Date Acceptance
2022-02-15
Citation
Frontiers in Neurology, 13
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/94607
URL
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9014175/
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.819624
ISSN
1664-2295
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Journal / Book Title
Frontiers in Neurology
Volume
13
Copyright Statement
© 2022 Giannos, Katsikas Triantafyllidis, Geropoulos and Kechagias. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9014175/
Subjects
1103 Clinical Sciences
1109 Neurosciences
1701 Psychology
Publication Status
Published
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