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ReviewWorld journal of hepatology2020

Mechanisms and consequences of COVID-19 associated liver injury: What can we affirm?

Carlos Antunes Brito, Fabio Marinho Barros, Edmundo Pessoa Lopes

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Review in World journal of hepatology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Clinical-laboratory characteristics predictive of COVID-19 severity: a prospective hospital cohort, in Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024
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  12. Impact of Liver Functions by Repurposed Drugs for COVID-19 Treatment.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2022
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  16. Liver injury in the era of COVID-19.World journal of gastroenterology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Carlos Antunes BritoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Center of Medical Sciences of Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50740600, Brazil.
Fabio Marinho BarrosPortuguês Hospital of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 52010075, Brazil.
Edmundo Pessoa LopesDepartment of Internal Medicine, Center of Medical Sciences of Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco 50740600, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco · BRReal Hospital Português · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since the first reports of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in December 2019 in China, numerous papers have been published describing a high frequency of liver injury associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection, many of them proposing a link between these findings and patient outcomes. Increases in serum aminotransferase levels (ranging from 16% to 62%) and bilirubin levels (ranging from 5% to 21%) have been reported and seem to be more often observed in patients with severe forms of COVID-19. Although absolute changes in these parameters are frequently seen, other variables, such as the ratio above the upper limit of normal, the onset of liver injury as a complication in severe cases and histopathological findings, reinforce that liver changes are of dubious clinical relevance in the course of this disease. Other factors must also be considered in these analyses, such as the repercussions of hemodynamic changes, the presence of thrombotic events, and, mainly, the possible drug-induced liver injury with the current, yet off-label, treatment. This paper aimed to analyze the currently available data on liver injury in patients with COVID-19.

Indexed as

COVID-19Drug induced liver injuryLiver enzymesLiver injuryPandemicSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32952870
PMCPMC7475779
OpenAlexW3081269041

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