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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3578</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.SP188</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A Study on C-reactive Protein and Liver Function Tests in Laboratory RT-PCR Positive Covid-19 Patients in a Tertiary Care Centre __ampersandsignndash; A Retrospective Study&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Maheswari</surname><given-names>M. Muthu Uma</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A</surname><given-names>Velayutharaj</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>R</surname><given-names>Saraswathi</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S</surname><given-names>Prabhushankar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>R</surname><given-names>Shivakumar</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>rn</volume><issue>ch</issue><fpage>138</fpage><lpage>141</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the greatest challenges to the global healthcare system. Although the res piratory system is the main target of SARS-CoV-2 infection; other organs, exposure to the viral infection might also be a concern for CVID-19 affected patients especially the cardiovascular system and liver. Objective: To know the status of C- reactive protein (CRP)and Liver Function Tests (LFT) in Covid-19 positive patients before initiating any treatment in a tertiary care hospital. Methods: Age and sex-matched 40 cases were taken for the study who were hospitalized and COVID-19 infection had been confirmed by real-time RT PCR for COVID-19. Patients with a previous history of liver illness, renal disorders, chronic inflamma tory conditions, malignancy and autoimmune disorders were excluded from the study. Results: Almost all the liver enzymes were higher than the normal levels as seen in aspartate transaminase (35%), alanine transaminase (22.5%), alkaline phosphatase (20%), and gamma-glutamyl transaminase (35%). And whenever the protein, espe cially albumin was low there was an increased value of CRP and correspondingly with increased total and direct bilirubin levels. Conclusion: In our study liver function test was altered even before starting any treatment for SARS-CoV-2 indicates that LFT can be a tool to assess multiorgan involvement whenever the patient is going for complication or cytokine storm by doing serial measurements of liver function.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> C-reactive protein (CRP)</kwd><kwd> Liver Function Tests (LFT)</kwd><kwd> Severe acute respiratory symptom (SARS-CoV-2) </kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
