Open AccessHepatocellular injury and the mortality risk among patients with COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study
Author(s) -
Ali Madian,
Ahmed Eliwa,
Hytham Abdalla,
Haitham A Azeem Aly
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
world journal of hepatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 55
ISSN - 1948-5182
DOI - 10.4254/wjh.v13.i8.939
Subject(s) - medicine , retrospective cohort study , covid-19 , cohort , cohort study , emergency medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Clearly, infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is not limited to the lung but also affects other organs. We need predictive models to determine patients' prognoses and to improve health care resource allocation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. While treating COVID-19, we observed differential outcome prediction weights for markers of hepatocellular injury among hospitalized patients.