Hepatic angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 expression in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and in patients with fatal COVID-19

Table 1 Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis activity score and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis-clinical research network histological feature scores in livers positive or negative for the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 mRNA in the ‘Inflammation in coronavirus disease 2019: Exploration of critical aspects of pathogenesis’ study of patients who died of fatal coronavirus disease 2019

Case	Ballooning	Inflammation	Fat	Fibrosis	Hepatic SARS-CoV-2 PCR result
A	0	0	0	0	-
B	0	0	1	3	+
C	0	0	1	2	+
D	0	0	1	0	-
E	0	0	0	0	+
F	0	0	0	1c	-
G	0	0	1	3*	-
H	0	0	0	0	-
I	0	0	2	1b	+
J	0	0	0	3	-
K	0	0	0	0	-

SARS-CoV-2: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.