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MUMBAI: After blood clots in the arteries of limbs, heart and brain, Covid patients are coming with intestinal clots and gangrene. Across city hospitals, nearly a dozen cases have been treated by physicians and surgeons, who caution that complaints of excruciating and unexplained stomach pain should be investigated.
Sunil Gavali is one recent case treated at Andheri’s Holy Family Hospital, in which doctors detected a Covid-induced clot in the intestine. The 58-year-old had come to the emergency ward with severe abdominal pain after a meal. The man, an OT staffer at the same hospital, was vaccinated with both doses of Covishield, and there were no usual Covid red flags. When Gavali’s pain didn’t subside with medications, doctors did a CT scan which showed multiple clots in the main artery supplying blood to the intestine, called mesenteric superior.