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Sonographic findings in coronavirus disease-19 associated liver damage.

Jakob SpogisFlorian HagenWolfgang M ThaissTatjana HoffmannNisar MalekKonstantin NikolaouChristoph P BergStephan SingerHans BösmüllerFlorian KrethSascha Kaufmann
Published in: PloS one (2021)
For most hospitalized COVID-19 patients, elevated liver enzymes cause little concern as they are only mild to moderate. However, in severely ill patients bedside sonography is a powerful tool to reveal different patterns of vascular, cholestatic or inflammatory complications in the liver, which are associated with high mortality. In addition, macrophage activation as histopathologic correlate for a hyperinflammatory syndrome seems to be a frequent complication in COVID-19.
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