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. 2022 May;71(5):1036-1038.
doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2021-325278. Epub 2021 Jun 17.

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) precipitated by severe alcoholic hepatitis: another collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Esra Görgülü  1 , Wenyi Gu  1 , Jonel Trebicka  1   2 , Victoria Therese Mücke  1 , Marcus Maximilian Muecke  1 , Mireen Friedrich-Rust  1 , Joerg Bojunga  1 , Stefan Zeuzem  1 , Fabian Finkelmeier #  1 , Kai-Henrik Peiffer #  3   4
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Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) precipitated by severe alcoholic hepatitis: another collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Esra Görgülü et al. Gut. 2022 May.
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Keywords: alcohol-induced injury; alcoholic liver disease; chronic liver disease; liver cirrhosis.

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Increase of ACLF precipitated by severe alcoholic hepatitis during the COVID-19 pandemic. (A) Percentage of patients with ACLF precipitated by severe alcoholic hepatitis (orange) or other causes (grey) in years 2017–2020. ANOVA was performed to determine statistical significance (*p<0.05). (B) Percentage of patients with ACLF precipitated by severe alcoholic hepatitis every 2 months on a timeline in years 2017–2020 in the context of social activity level and regulations by the German government. Data on social activity were taken from the official website of the Hesse government (https://www.hessen.de/fuer-buerger/corona-hessen/interviews-reden-und-mehr/corona-massnahmen-der-landesregierung). ACLF, acute-on-chronic liver failure; ANOVA, analysis of variance; ICU, intensive care unit.
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