Table 1.

Case series of 6 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and upper GI bleeding

Patient	Age, y	Gender	Presenting GI symptom	O2 saturation	Hb g/dL, HCT %, Plts K/uL	Transfusion	CXR finding	GBS	D-dimer, ng/mL∗	Ferritin, ng/mL†	LDH, U/L‡	GI outcome
1	77	Male	Hematemesis	94% RA	9.6/30.5/154	No	BI	12	372	860	399	GI bleed resolved
2	65	Male	Melena	86% RA	6.2/17.7/151	Yes 2 U PRBC	BO	18	3042	7987	1142	GI bleed resolved
3	46	Male	Melena	90% RA	6.8/21.2/226	Yes 2 U PRBC	BI	11	285	3970	878	GI bleed resolved
4	70	Female	Melena	92% RA	10.2/31.2/260	No	BO	11	38674	1040	1188	GI bleed resolved
5	67	Female	Hematemesis	88% RA	6.1/20.7/209	Yes 2 U PRBC	BI RUL opacity	15	-	802	563	GI bleed resolved
6	82	Female	Melena	94% 5LO2	8.6/29.2/302	Yes 2 U PRBC	BI LLL opacity	14	1198	705	959	GI bleed resolved

RA, Room air; CXR, chest x-ray; GBS, Glasgow-Blatchford score, BI, bilateral interstitial infiltrates; BO, bilateral opacities; RUL, right upper lobe; LLL, left lower lobe; Hb, hemoglobin; HCT, hematocrit; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; PRBC, packed red blood cells; Plts, platelets; 5L02, five liters oxygen.

^∗D-dimer: upper limit of normal <229 ng/mL.

^†Ferritin: upper limit of normal 400 ng/mL.

^‡LDH: upper limit of normal 242 U/L.