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cord-342930-f7cw2ca6	Portincasa, Piero	Hepatic consequences of COVID-19 infection. Lapping or biting?	2020-06-01		.txt	text/plain	3010	160	44	Although the most frequent and critical clinical 15 presentation is secondary to the involvement of the lung (fever, cough), the infection by SARS16 CoV-2 virus may lead to a systemic and multi-organ disease [10] , also involving the gastrointestinal 17 tract (nausea/vomiting, or diarrhea) [11, 12] . Although the level of serum transaminases could be already elevated before the onset of COVID-14 19, results from clinical reports and autopsy studies [26, 49, 50] suggest that liver dysfunction can 15 be an expression of a worse disease evolution, and that an isolated elevation of transaminases alone 16 is likely to be the indirect expression of a systemic inflammation. In one study, patients 17 developing abnormal liver tests had higher risks of progressing to severe disease [51] , and the 18 finding is associated with longer hospital stay [62] . Non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases in patients with 19 COVID-19: A retrospective study	./cache/cord-342930-f7cw2ca6.txt	./txt/cord-342930-f7cw2ca6.txt