Liver injury during highly pathogenic human coronavirus infections
Ling Xu, Jia Liu, Mengji Lu, Dongliang Yang, Xin Zheng – 14 March 2020 – The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐Cov‐2), the pathogen of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID‐19), has posed a serious threat to global public health. The WHO has declared the outbreak of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection an international public health emergency. Lung lesions have been considered as the major damage caused by SARS‐CoV‐2 infection. However, liver injury has also been reported to occur during the course of the disease in severe cases.