Asemptomatik Covid -19 Enfeksiyonu Sırasında Şiddetli Hipertransaminazemi
Year 2025,
Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 25 - 28, 27.02.2025
Raziye Merve Yaradılmış
,
İlknur Bodur
,
Ahmet Serkan Özcan
,
Betül Öztürk
,
Orkun Aydın
,
Ali Güngör
,
Nilden Tuygun
Abstract
Kritik hasta çocuklarda COVID-19’a bağlı karaciğer hasarının mekanizması henüz tam olarak tanımlanmamış olsa da hiperinflamasyon aşamasıyla (sitokin salınımı) ilişkili olduğu düşünülmektedir. Burada, COVID-19’a bağlı izole ciddi karaciğer enzim yüksekliği olan 40 günlük asemptomatik bir hastayı sunuyoruz.40 günlük kız hasta, annesine COVID-19 tanısı konulduktan sonra çocuk acil servise tarama amacıyla başvurdu. Başvuru sırasında hastanın vital bulguları ve fizik muayenesi normaldi. Laboratuvar bulguları hepatik fonksiyon ölçümlerinde değişiklikler gösterdi. Başvurunun 6. gününde transaminaz düzeyleri aspartat aminotransferaz (AST) ve alanin aminotransferaz (ALT) için üst referans sınırının 11 ve 5 katına kadar yükseldi. Direkt bilirubin yüksekliği veya koagülopati saptanmadı, ayrıca kreatin kinaz (CK) düzeyi normal sınırlardaydı. Diğer konjenital veya edinilmiş enfeksiyonlar dışlandı. Abdomen ultrasonunda (6. gün) karaciğer ekojenitenitesinde artış saptandı. Takip eden haftalarda AST, ALT düzeyleri düştü ve başvuru sırasındaki ilk biyokimyasal değerlendirmeden 14 gün sonra normal aralığa geriledi. Asemptomatik veya hafif semptomatik COVID-19 enfeksiyonu olan pediatrik hastalarda, karaciğer yetmezliği olsun ya da olmasın, ciddi hepatik enzim yüksekliği görülebilir. COVID-19 hastalarında karaciğer hasarına, doğrudan virüs enfeksiyonu gibi çeşitli mekanizmalar neden olabilir. Klinisyenlerin, COVID-19 enfeksiyonunda karaciğer hasarı oluşumuna daha fazla dikkat etmesi ve tedavi stratejisinde karaciğer hasarının patogenezini kapsamlı bir şekilde analiz etmesi gerekmektedir.
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Severe Hypertransaminasemia During Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infection
Year 2025,
Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 25 - 28, 27.02.2025
Raziye Merve Yaradılmış
,
İlknur Bodur
,
Ahmet Serkan Özcan
,
Betül Öztürk
,
Orkun Aydın
,
Ali Güngör
,
Nilden Tuygun
Abstract
Although the mechanism of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related liver damage in critically ill children is not well defined yet, it is thought to be related to the hyperinflammation phase (cytokine release). Here, we present a 40-day-old asymptomatic patient with isolated severe liver enzyme elevation associated with COVID-19. A 40-day-old female was admitted to our emergency department for screening after her mother was diagnosed with COVID-19. The patient’s vital signs and physical examination were normal on admission. Laboratory findings showed alterations in hepatic function measures. Transaminase levels increased up to 11-fold and 5-fold the upper reference limit for aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) on day 6 of admission. No direct bilirubin elevation or coagulopathy was detected, and also the creatine kinase (CK) level was within the normal range. Microbial investigations excluded a superimposed congenital or acquired infection. Ultrasound examination (day 6) found only altered echogenicity in the liver. During the following weeks, AST and ALT levels decreased and resolved to normal range after 14 days from the first biochemical evaluation on admission. Pediatric patients with asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic COVID-19 infection may have severe hepatic enzyme elevation, with or without hepatic failure. A variety of mechanisms, such as direct virus infection may cause liver injury in patients with COVID-19. Clinicians should pay more attention to the occurrence of liver damage in COVID-19 infection and analyze comprehensively the pathogenesis of liver injury in management strategy.
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- Zhou, Y. H., Zheng, K. I., Targher, G., Byrne, C. D., & Zheng, M. H. (2020). Abnormal liver enzymes in children and infants with COVID-19: A narrative review of case-series studies. Pediatric obesity, 15(12), e12723. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12723
- Zippi, M., Fiorino, S., Occhigrossi, G., & Hong, W. (2020). Hypertransaminasemia in the course of
infection with SARS-CoV-2: Incidence and pathogenetic hypothesis. World journal of clinical cases,
8(8), 1385–1390. https://doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v8.i8.1385