Fatty liver on computed tomography scan on admission is a risk factor for severe coronavirus disease

Copyright © 2021 Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved..

OBJECTIVES: To alleviate the overflow of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in hospitals, less invasive and simple criteria are required to triage the patients. We evaluated the relationship between COVID-19 severity and fatty liver on plain computed tomography (CT) scan performed on admission.

METHODS: In this retrospective cohort study, we considered all COVID-19 patients at a large tertiary care hospital between January 31 and August 31, 2020. COVID-19 severity was categorized into severe (moderate and severe) and non-severe (asymptomatic and mild) groups, based on the Japanese National COVID-19 guidelines. Fatty liver was detected on plain CT scan. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate factors associated with severe COVID-19.

RESULTS: Of 222 patients (median age: 52 years), 3.2%, 58.1%, 20.7%, and 18.0% presented with asymptomatic, mild, moderate, and severe COVID-19, respectively. Although 59.9% had no fatty liver on plain CT, mild, moderate, and severe fatty liver occurred in 13.1%, 18.9%, and 8.1%, respectively. Age and presence of fatty liver were significantly associated with severe COVID-19.

CONCLUSION: Our study showed that fatty liver on plain CT scan on admission can become a risk factor for severe COVID-19. This finding may help clinicians to easily triage COVID-19 patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy - 28(2022), 2 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 217-223

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Okuhama, Ayako [VerfasserIn]
Hotta, Masatoshi [VerfasserIn]
Ishikane, Masahiro [VerfasserIn]
Kawashima, Akira [VerfasserIn]
Miyazato, Yusuke [VerfasserIn]
Terada, Mari [VerfasserIn]
Yamada, Gen [VerfasserIn]
Kanda, Kohei [VerfasserIn]
Inada, Makoto [VerfasserIn]
Sato, Lubna [VerfasserIn]
Sato, Mitsuhiro [VerfasserIn]
Akiyama, Yutaro [VerfasserIn]
Suzuki, Tetsuya [VerfasserIn]
Nakamoto, Takato [VerfasserIn]
Nomoto, Hidetoshi [VerfasserIn]
Ide, Satoshi [VerfasserIn]
Nakamura, Keiji [VerfasserIn]
Saito, Sho [VerfasserIn]
Kinoshita, Noriko [VerfasserIn]
Yamamoto, Kei [VerfasserIn]
Morioka, Shinichiro [VerfasserIn]
Ujiie, Mugen [VerfasserIn]
Hayakawa, Kayoko [VerfasserIn]
Kustuna, Satoshi [VerfasserIn]
Shida, Yoshitaka [VerfasserIn]
Tajima, Tsuyoshi [VerfasserIn]
Teruya, Katsuji [VerfasserIn]
Funato, Yumi [VerfasserIn]
Yamamoto, Makiko [VerfasserIn]
Izumi, Shinyu [VerfasserIn]
Hojo, Masayuki [VerfasserIn]
Sugiyama, Haruhito [VerfasserIn]
Ohmagari, Norio [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Journal Article
Outcome
Pneumonia
Triage

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Date Completed 18.01.2022

Date Revised 18.01.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jiac.2021.10.013

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM332945308