Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: A de-identified dataset of patients with COVID-19 admitted to our community hospital in Evanston, Illinois, from March 1, 2020 to February 28, 2021 was retrospectively reviewed. Patients from the first wave were identified as those admitted during the initial peak of admissions observed at our hospital between March 1, 2020 and September 3, 2020.
J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep
April 2022
Liver involvement is not an uncommon extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD-associated liver diseases may have a variety of etiopathogenetic origins (including shared autoimmune pathogenesis, the effect of chronic inflammatory status, and adverse effects of drugs). Nevertheless, acute granulomatous hepatitis in the setting of Crohn's disease (CD) is a rare clinical entity.
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