COVID-19 with Acute Cholecystitis: A Case Report

Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an enveloped, non-segmented positive-sense RNA virus that belonging to the beta-coronaviridae family. Patients were said to had various symptoms of fever, cough, anosmia, and chest stuffiness in addition to other non-specific clinical manifestations, including diarrhea, vomiting, anorexia, abdominal pain, and so on. Although this gastrointestinal symptoms were present in COVID-19 case, there was not enough evidence about the involvement of gallbladder and biliary tract in literature to date. We report a rare case of Acute Cholecystitis on a COVID-19 patient in Jakarta, Indonesia. A case of 54-year-old female with COVID-19 confirmed by RT-PCR Test who had constant pain in the right upper quadrant of her abdomen during her arrival at the hospital that was finally diagnosed as Acute Cholecystitis. The Laboratory Findings revealed normal level of White Blood Cells(6.73 K/aeL). The Multidisciplinary team decided to treat COVID-19 infection with antiviral (Favipiravir, according to Indonesian COVID-19 Guideline) for 2 weeks until her RT-PCR was found to be negative then perform a laparoscopic cholecystectomy as the first treatment. During the administration of Favipiravir, there was a reduction of pain in the right upper quadrant abdomen and an overall clinical improvement.