UPDATED: July 23, 2021 07:32 IST
Doctors suspect that poor nutrition and use of steroids could have compromised the patients livers. (PTI photo used for representation)
Fourteen post-Covid patients, eight of whom had received steroids during treatment, were diagnosed with unusually large and multiple liver abscesses in the last two months, and one of them died due to massive bleeding, authorities at a leading private hospital here said on Thursday.
Liver abscess (pus formation in liver) is commonly caused by a parasite known as entamoeba histolytica which is transmitted through contaminated food and water, doctors said.
These patients, 10 men and four women in the age group of 28-74, were brought to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the last two months with unusual manifestations , doctors said.
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