Perioperative Presentation of COVID 19 Disease in a Liver Transplant Recipient
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) is highly contagious. It may rapidly progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and result in multiorgan dysfunction or death in some cases.(1,2) Here, we report the case of a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who underwent liver transplantation and experienced COVID 19 infection during the perioperative period. This case may help clinicians by alerting them to potential COVID 19 infection in transplant recipients during the outbreak.
Hepatology