1. Baseline characteristics of COVID-19 Italian patients admitted to Desio Hospital, Lombardy: a retrospective study
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Antonio Milano, Valerio Leoni, Elisa Galimberti, Rosanna Falbo, Cecilia Sarto, Paolo Brambilla, Adela Sulejmani, Jari Intra, C. Giacobone, Elena Scopetta, Sulejmani, A, Galimberti, E, Giacobone, C, Milano, A, Scopetta, E, Intra, J, Falbo, R, Sarto, C, Leoni, V, and Brambilla, P
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ratio ,Male ,comorbiditie ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Clinical Biochemistry ,Disease ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,FIO ,Procalcitonin ,PaO ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,Risk of mortality ,Humans ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Aged, 80 and over ,biology ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,Age Factors ,COVID-19 ,Retrospective cohort study ,Emergency department ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,mortality ,lymphocytopenia ,older age ,Absolute neutrophil count ,biology.protein ,Female ,Creatine kinase ,Lymphocytopenia ,business - Abstract
The correlation of clinical, radiological and laboratory findings of patients at admission in the Emergency Department (ED) with clinical severity and risk of mortality was investigated. Adult coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients hospitalized in March 2020 in Desio Hospital, Lombardy, were retrospectively included in the study, and categorized in terms of disease severity and adverse outcome. Out of the 175 patients enrolled, 79% presented one or more comorbidities, with cardiovascular disease being the most frequent (62%). More than half of the patients showed lymphocytopenia and 20% thrombocytopenia. The patients in the severe group presented higher absolute neutrophil count (ANC), C-reactive protein (CRP), AST, LDH, procalcitonin (PCT) and BUN values compared to the non-severe group (p 106.08 µmol/L (OR = 2.87; 95% CI 1.04–7.92) and creatine kinase > 2.90 µkat/L (OR = 3.80; 95% CI 1.31–10.9) were observed on admission (p
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- 2021
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