Liver and COVID-19: From care of patients with liver diseases to liver injury

World J Hepatol. 2021 Oct 27;13(10):1367-1377. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v13.i10.1367.ABSTRACTThe global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) changed dramatically all priorities on medical society and created several challenges for clinicians caring for patients with liver diseases. We performed a comprehensive review about how COVID-19 can affect the liver, the influence of liver diseases on the risk of developing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and COVID-19 severity and also some strategies to overcome all the challenges clinicians have to face in the management of patients with liver diseases in a period of time when all the focus turned on COVID-19. We analyze the relationship between COVID-19 and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic liver disease, viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma and liver transplantation, as well as the approach to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.PMID:34786172 | PMC:PMC8568576 | DOI:10.4254/wjh.v13.i10.1367
Source: World Journal of Hepatology - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Source Type: research