Prevalence of acute liver injury and hypertransaminemia in patients with COVID-19: a protocol for a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

COVID-19 has spread rapidly in China and around the world. Published studies have revealed that some patients with COVID-19 had abnormal liver function in laboratory tests. However, the results were inconsistent and the analysis of epidemiological data stratified by the severity of COVID-19 was not available in previous meta-analyses. Furthermore, these meta-analyses were suspected of overestimating the incidence of liver injury in patients with COVID-19 because some studies considered transaminase elevation as liver injury, which might partially result from cardiac and muscle injury. This systematic review aims to enrol published literatures related to COVID-19 without language restriction, analyse the data based on the severity of the COVID-19 and explore the impact

SUBMITTER: Li G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7342854 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature