Pediatric Acute Liver Failure Due to Type 2 Autoimmune... : JPGN Reports
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oped acute liver failure secondary to type 2 autoimmune hepatitis preceded by mild infection with SARS-CoV-2. Testing for viral hepatitis was negative, and the patient did not meet diagnostic criteria for multisystem inflammatory disease in children (MIS-C). A liver biopsy showed acute submassive hepatocyte necrosis with brisk CD3+ T lymphocyte infiltration and no evidence of fibrosis or chronic liver disease. Treatment with high-dose methylprednisolone resulted in rapid normalization of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), international normalized ratio (INR), and ammonia levels, and liver transplantation was avoided. This case highlights a possible association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent development of autoimmune liver disease presenting with acute liver failure....
  • peeonyou@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    When these mysterious cases of liver failure and liver transplantation started making the rounds on the news, my partner and I, both laypeople, just looked at each other like, oh shit this is probably yet another issue caused by covid19.

    But then for the next two months the tv news reports have been “inconclusive” at best on the cause of the illnesses, on the rare occassions they bring it up at all. I’ve yet to see a single US news outlet even attempt to question whether it could be caused by covid.

    Are they too scared that people will yank their kids from schools? So they’d rather kids just die in the name of the economy now? First it was old people, and now it’s little kids?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      31·
      2 years ago

      US admin is deeply invested in pretending that the pandemic is over, so entertaining the idea that there could be unexpected consequences from letting covid run wild would be political suicide at this point.