id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-324175-5c4ijkpm Kassas, Mohamed El COVID-19 in Egypt: Through Crisis to Adaptation; a gastroenterologist’s Perspective 2020-07-19 .txt text/plain 2414 133 42 Liver injury is usually mild and does not require specific treatment [13] ; however, rare cases of severe acute hepatitis in patients with COVID -19 have been reported [9] . Telemedicine has started in many centers in Egypt after the COVID-19 pandemic by customizing dedicated phone numbers for different gastroenterology and hepatology services as viral hepatitis clinics, liver cirrhosis clinics, vascular liver diseases clinics, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) clinics. Although many centers have multidisciplinary teams for the management of different gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases (hepatocellular carcinoma and IBD), online meetings for these teams are not a common practice. Preparation for liver transplantation in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic requires testing for SARS-CoV-2 for donors and recipients before the operation, which is not applicable in many countries, including Egypt, because of the test sparing to suspicious cases only [28] . ./cache/cord-324175-5c4ijkpm.txt ./txt/cord-324175-5c4ijkpm.txt