<![CDATA[Purpose: COVID 19) is a respiratory disease caused by a member of the coronaviruses family, named(SARS-CoV-2), discovered in December 2019 in China. This study aims to assess the association of thesimple fatty liver disease with the severity of the chest computed tomography (CT) scan findings in COVID19.Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional study that enrolled 322 patients with positive (RT-PCR)tests and chest CT scan findings. Patients with chronic lung and liver disease, alcoholics, and abnormal liverfunction tests excluded from the study. The liver CT scan density assessed, accordingly the patients dividedinto fatty-liver and non-fatty liver groups. The severity of lung CT changes compared between them, usingChi-square test.Conclusion: COVID patients with fatty liver have more progressive changes in the chest CT scan. Theyhave similar lung lesion distribution to non- fatty liver patients. Crazy paving lesions, septal thickening,Lymphadenopathy and plural effusion in fatty liver patients occurs in the same frequency as non-fatty liverpatients]]>
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