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- Title
CT Scan Findings of COVID-19 in Patients with Fatty Liver.
- Authors
Sadiq, Israa Mohammed; Bakr, Kermanj Ismail
- Abstract
Purpose: COVID 19) is a respiratory disease caused by a member of the coronaviruses family, named (SARS-CoV-2), discovered in December 2019 in China. This study aims to assess the association of the simple fatty liver disease with the severity of the chest computed tomography (CT) scan findings in COVID 19. Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional study that enrolled 322 patients with positive (RT-PCR) tests and chest CT scan findings. Patients with chronic lung and liver disease, alcoholics, and abnormal liver function tests excluded from the study. The liver CT scan density assessed, accordingly the patients divided into fatty-liver and non-fatty liver groups. The severity of lung CT changes compared between them, using Chi-square test. Conclusion: COVID patients with fatty liver have more progressive changes in the chest CT scan. They have similar lung lesion distribution to non- fatty liver patients. Crazy paving lesions, septal thickening, Lymphadenopathy and plural effusion in fatty liver patients occurs in the same frequency as non-fatty liver patients
- Subjects
CHINA; FATTY liver; COVID-19; LIVER function tests; RESPIRATORY diseases; SARS-CoV-2
- Publication
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 2021, Vol 15, Issue 1, p2741
- ISSN
0973-9122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37506/ijfmt.v15i1.13813