A COVID-19 Patient Presenting with Acute Hepatitis

Abstract

A 55-year-old male patient presented to our outpatient clinic with complaints of dark urine and fatigue. The laboratory parameters were as follows: alanine aminotransferase 821 IU/L, aspartate aminotransferase 1042 IU/L, alkaline phosphatase 412 IU/L gamma-glutamyl transferase 268 IU/L and the complete urinalysis revealed hematuria, while other laboratory parameters were normal. The patient’s abdominal ultrasonography (USG) and Doppler USG showed no pathological finding. Hepatitis and the other serologies were negative. The patient, who did not exhibit any symptoms of Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) initially, exhibited bilateral opacities in the middle zones on chest X-ray taken after the development of fever and dyspnea on the third day of hospitalization. The computed tomography scan revealed segmental consolidation across the subpleural regions, mostly in the middle zones, and was evaluated to be consistent with COVID-19. COVID-19 treatment was planned for the patient whose nasopharyngeal swab tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome-Coronavirus-2.

Keywords

• acute hepatitis
• covid-19
• sars-cov-2