Clinical and laboratory features of COVID-19: Predictors of severe prognosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged first in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and quickly spread throughout the world. Clinical and laboratory data are of importance to increase the success in the management of COVID-19 patients.

Methods

Data were obtained retrospectively from medical records of 191 hospitalized patients diagnosed with COVID-19 from a tertiary single-center hospital between March and April 2020. Prognostic effects of variables on admission among patients who received intensive care unit (ICU) support and those who didn't require ICU care were compared.

Results

Patients required ICU care (n = 46) were older (median, 71 vs. 43 years), with more underlying comorbidities (76.1% vs. 33.1%). ICU patients had lower lymphocytes, percentage of

SUBMITTER: Bastug A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7480980 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature