COVID-19 as a Trigger for De Novo Crohn’s Disease

Tursi, Antonio MD
Nenna, Rosanna MD

Territorial Gastroenterology Service, ASL BAT, Andria, Italy
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Post-graduate School of Digestive Diseases, Catholic University, Rome, Italyand
Division of Pathology, “Lorenzo Bonomo” Hospital, ASL BAT, Andria, Italy

Address correspondence to: Antonio Tursi, MD, Via Torino, 49 76123 Andria (BT), Italy ([email protected]).

Online date: November 24, 2021

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Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 28(6):p e76-e77, June 03, 2022. | DOI: 10.1093/ibd/izab298

Lay Summary

A 47-year-old woman developed a de novo occurrence of Crohn’s disease after coronavirus disease 2019. This is an unusual occurrence and suggests that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 could trigger inflammatory bowel disease in predisposed people.