Gallbladder gangrene reported in five patients post COVID-19 recovery in Delhi, know what it means
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Doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital have seen five patients who developed gallbladder gangrene after recovering from COVID-19.
New Delhi: It has been more than a year and a half since COVID-19 infection was first reported in the country and since then people have been complaining about different types of post-COVID diseases or problems. In the latest complication, doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital have seen five patients who developed gallbladder gangrene after recovering from COVID-19. These five patients were successfully treated at the hospital between June and August.
Dr Anil Arora, Chairman of the Institute of Liver, Gastroenterology and Pancreaticobiliary Sciences at the hospital, said, “We successfully treated five such patients between June and August. After recovering from COVID-19, these patients presented with severe inflammation of gallbladder without gallstones resulting in gangrene of gallbladder requiring urgent surgery.”
He claimed it is the first time that cases of gallbladder gangrene have been reported after recovery from COVID-19 infection.
