id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-256351-q8lkhklw Di Giorgio, Angelo Health status of patients with Autoimmune Liver Disease during SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in northern Italy 2020-05-12 .txt text/plain 1377 77 48 title: Health status of patients with Autoimmune Liver Disease during SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in northern Italy Twenty-six per cent (n= 39) developed mild/moderate respiratory symptoms likely due to an underlying SARS-CoV-2 infection; however, since the NPS was not carried out, they were classified as suspected cases of COVID-19. cases; the majority of them (3/4 patients, 75%) presented with a mild or moderate clinical phenotype (1 was asymptomatic) whilst 1 patient died ; this patient had risk factors for complicated COVID-19 described in the general population, including old age and associated comorbidities. We previously reported our review of past outbreaks of coronavirus infections and our preliminary experience with these patients followed in our center, and we suggested that immunocompromised patients (adults and children) are not at increased risk of COVID-19 complicated course compared to the general population (3). However we recently reported the uneventful course of patients with inflammatory bowel disease who were under IS or immunomodulating drugs, including antimetabolites, during the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic (4). ./cache/cord-256351-q8lkhklw.txt ./txt/cord-256351-q8lkhklw.txt