Author ORCID Identifier
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-31-2020
Abstract
Multiple questions have been raised regarding the GI and liver manifestations of COVID-19 infection and the implications of SARS-CoV-2 infection on GI endoscopy. A joint society statement by the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy on March 15, 2020 highlighted the potential for SARS-CoV-2 transmission through droplets, an established mode of transmission, and possibly fecal shedding, and the associated risk for transmission to endoscopy personnel during GI endoscopy procedures. In this document, we seek to summarize the data and provide evidence-based recommendation and clinical guidance. This rapid recommendation document was commissioned and approved by the AGA Governing Board to provide timely, methodologically rigorous guidance on a topic of high clinical importance to AGA members in the context of an emerging pandemic. It was published online on April 1st, 2020 and has an expiration date of six months.
Keywords
COVID-19 (disease), communicable diseases, coronavirus infections
Publication Title
Gastroenterology
Rights
© 2020 by the AGA Institute. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
Recommended Citation
Sultan S, Lim JK, Altayar O, Davitkov P, Feuerstein JD, Siddique SM, FalckYtter Y, El-Serag HB, on behalf of the AGA, AGA Institute Rapid Recommendations for Gastrointestinal Procedures During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Gastroenterology (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1053/ j.gastro.2020.03.072.