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cord-340710-dmow5p7k	Lagana, Stephen M.	Hepatic pathology in patients dying of COVID-19: a series of 40 cases including clinical, histologic, and virologic data	2020-08-13		.txt	text/plain	4539	275	48	title: Hepatic pathology in patients dying of COVID-19: a series of 40 cases including clinical, histologic, and virologic data Here we report the clinical and histologic findings related to the liver in 40 patients who died of complications of COVID-19. In conclusion, we found patients dying of COVID-19 had biochemical evidence of hepatitis (of variable severity) and demonstrated histologic findings of macrovesicular steatosis and mild acute hepatitis (lobular necroinflammation) and mild portal inflammation. A more recent study performed core needle biopsies on the livers of four patients and reported nonspecific findings, attributed to preexisting disease or perimortem injury [4] . Histologically, the most frequently encountered findings were macrovesicular steatosis, mild acute hepatitis, and minimal-to-mild portal inflammation. Nonetheless, based on the pattern of injury observed and the results of the PCR analysis, SARS-CoV-2 seems to involve the liver, and is associated with, possibly causal of, macrovesicular steatosis and acute hepatitis.	./cache/cord-340710-dmow5p7k.txt	./txt/cord-340710-dmow5p7k.txt