{"title":"Liver enzymes among COVID-19 patients in Al-Ahsa region of Saudi Arabia.","authors":"Omar AlOmair","doi":"10.1136/bmjgast-2023-001121","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background Hepatic damage is one of the common forms of extra pulmonary organ destructions among patients with COVID-19 infections. Aim To evaluate the prognosis of liver damage among COVID-19 patients based on their liver enzymes profile. Methods A retrospective study was done to evaluate the records of the hospitably admitted patient due to COVID-19 infection. Retrieved data included clinical presentation and investigation either imaging or laboratory with special investing in liver function tests. Result We reviewed 442 patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 infection. They were 64.5% of female patients and 35.5% of male patients. Their mean age was 54.5%, most of them were Saudi (76.7%) and the overall mortality reached up to (20.4%). Conclusion This large cohort of 442 patients has shown that liver damage may be an independent prognostic factor for morbidities and mortality among COVID-19 patients. It also showed the importance of liver function enzymes screening as a predictor for the outcome of those patients.","PeriodicalId":9235,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Open Gastroenterology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/45/de/bmjgast-2023-001121.PMC10151239.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"BMJ Open Gastroenterology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgast-2023-001121","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Background Hepatic damage is one of the common forms of extra pulmonary organ destructions among patients with COVID-19 infections. Aim To evaluate the prognosis of liver damage among COVID-19 patients based on their liver enzymes profile. Methods A retrospective study was done to evaluate the records of the hospitably admitted patient due to COVID-19 infection. Retrieved data included clinical presentation and investigation either imaging or laboratory with special investing in liver function tests. Result We reviewed 442 patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 infection. They were 64.5% of female patients and 35.5% of male patients. Their mean age was 54.5%, most of them were Saudi (76.7%) and the overall mortality reached up to (20.4%). Conclusion This large cohort of 442 patients has shown that liver damage may be an independent prognostic factor for morbidities and mortality among COVID-19 patients. It also showed the importance of liver function enzymes screening as a predictor for the outcome of those patients.
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BMJ Open Gastroenterology is an online-only, peer-reviewed, open access gastroenterology journal, dedicated to publishing high-quality medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas of gastroenterology. It is the open access companion journal of Gut and is co-owned by the British Society of Gastroenterology. The journal publishes all research study types, from study protocols to phase I trials to meta-analyses, including small or specialist studies. Publishing procedures are built around continuous publication, publishing research online as soon as the article is ready.