Author/Authors :
dara, naghi shahid beheshti university of medical sciences - pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition research center, research institute for children’s health, Tehran, Iran , sharifi, naghmeh shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran , ghanbari boroujeni, masoud shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran , hosseini, amirhossein shahid beheshti university of medical sciences - pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition research center, research institute for children’s health, Tehran, Iran , sayyari, aliakbar shahid beheshti university of medical sciences - pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition research center, research institute for children’s health, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the seventh coronavirus, known as the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2). Children often have milder diseases than adults with very rare mortality. Gastrointestinal manifestations and a mild increase in liver enzymes have been reported in 8.8% to 53% of COVID-19 cases. However, liver failure is extremely rare and has not been reported so far in the literature. The prevalence of comorbidities is not clear in children with COVID-19. Here, we reported a fatal case of simultaneous pneumonia secondary to SARS-CoV-2and acute liver failure in a 14-year-old boy with liver cirrhosis.
Keywords :
COVID , 19 , Children , Pneumonia , Chronic Liver Cirrhosis , Hepatic Encephalopathy
