Open AccessFrequency of hepatic steatosis and its association with the pneumonia severity score on chest computed tomography in adult COVID-19 patients
Author(s) -
Mehmet Tahtabaşı,
Tuğrul Hoşbul,
Ergin Karaman,
Yasin Akın,
Nihat Kılıçaslan,
Mehmet Gezer,
Fatih Şahiner
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
world journal of critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2220-3141
DOI - 10.5492/wjccm.v10.i3.47
Subject(s) - medicine , steatosis , covid-19 , pneumonia , computed tomography , radiology , severity of illness , gastroenterology , pathology , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Recent studies of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) demonstrated that obesity is significantly associated with increased disease severity, clinical outcome, and mortality. The association between hepatic steatosis, which frequently accompanies obesity, and the pneumonia severity score (PSS) evaluated on computed tomography (CT), and the prevalence of steatosis in patients with COVID-19 remains to be elucidated.