Management of Patients with Liver Transplant and Chronic Liver Diseases During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Brief Review

The coronavirus associated disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has rapidly spread all around the world and became pandemic in March 2020. Data on liver transplantation and chronic liver disease during the pandemic has remained scarce, and there is little information on whether imm...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Archives of Iranian medicine 2020-10, Vol.23 (10), p.713-717
Hauptverfasser:	Taher, Mohammad, Miroliaee, Arash, Ebrahimi Daryani, Nasser, Alborzi Avanaki, Foroogh, Aletaha, Najmeh, Nasiri-Toosi, Mohsen, Dashti, Habibollah, Basirat, Vahid, Jafarian, Ali
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Betacoronavirus Coronavirus Infections - complications Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology Coronavirus Infections - therapy Coronaviruses COVID-19 Humans Infection Control Liver diseases Liver Diseases - complications Liver Diseases - mortality Liver Diseases - surgery Liver Transplantation Liver transplants Pandemics Pneumonia, Viral - complications Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology Pneumonia, Viral - therapy SARS-CoV-2 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Transplants & implants
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Zusammenfassung:	The coronavirus associated disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has rapidly spread all around the world and became pandemic in March 2020. Data on liver transplantation and chronic liver disease during the pandemic has remained scarce, and there is little information on whether immunosuppressed patients are at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 infection. This review provides information for health care providers who care for patients with liver transplantation and chronic liver diseases.
ISSN:	1029-2977 1735-3947
DOI:	10.34172/aim.2020.92