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A Case of Severe Hepatitis in Infant Twins With COVID-19

We report a case of nine-month-old twins who presented with bright green diarrhea along with progressively worsening jaundice over one week. On initial evaluation, they were found to have significantly elevated liver enzymes, bilirubin, and alkaline phosphatase levels but without signs of liver fail...

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Autores principales: Heston, Aaron L, Sharma, Varun, Johnson, Taryn, Anandakrishnan, Archana, Patel, Ashish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10427151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37588319
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41967
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author Heston, Aaron L
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description We report a case of nine-month-old twins who presented with bright green diarrhea along with progressively worsening jaundice over one week. On initial evaluation, they were found to have significantly elevated liver enzymes, bilirubin, and alkaline phosphatase levels but without signs of liver failure. They were tested for multiple causes of liver injury including autoimmune and infectious etiologies, which were negative as well. Both twins were incidentally found to be positive for COVID-19 on testing per hospital protocol but did not have any respiratory symptoms. They were monitored closely during their hospital stay and showed clinical stability but with only slight improvement in abnormal lab levels. Ultimately, they were discharged with close outpatient follow-up. They demonstrated full resolution of all lab abnormalities and symptoms two months post discharge.
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spelling pubmed-104271512023-08-16 A Case of Severe Hepatitis in Infant Twins With COVID-19 Heston, Aaron L Sharma, Varun Johnson, Taryn Anandakrishnan, Archana Patel, Ashish Cureus Pediatrics We report a case of nine-month-old twins who presented with bright green diarrhea along with progressively worsening jaundice over one week. On initial evaluation, they were found to have significantly elevated liver enzymes, bilirubin, and alkaline phosphatase levels but without signs of liver failure. They were tested for multiple causes of liver injury including autoimmune and infectious etiologies, which were negative as well. Both twins were incidentally found to be positive for COVID-19 on testing per hospital protocol but did not have any respiratory symptoms. They were monitored closely during their hospital stay and showed clinical stability but with only slight improvement in abnormal lab levels. Ultimately, they were discharged with close outpatient follow-up. They demonstrated full resolution of all lab abnormalities and symptoms two months post discharge. Cureus 2023-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10427151/ /pubmed/37588319 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41967 Text en Copyright © 2023, Heston et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short A Case of Severe Hepatitis in Infant Twins With COVID-19
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