Coronavirus Disease-2019 and Implications on the Liver.

Clin Liver Dis

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Burnett-Womack Building, Campus Box 7584, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7584, USA. Electronic address:

Published: February 2023

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a large impact on patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) and liver transplantation (LT) recipients. Patients with advanced CLD are at a significantly increased risk of poor outcomes in the setting of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. The pandemic has also considerably altered the management and care that is provided to patients with CLD, pre-LT patients, and LT recipients. Vaccination against COVID-19 protects patients with CLD and LT recipients from adverse outcomes and is safe in these patients; however, vaccine efficacy may be reduced in LT recipients and other immunosuppressed patients.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9385729PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cld.2022.08.003DOI Listing

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