scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

Risk factors of critical & mortal COVID-19 cases: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

TLDR
Clinical manifestations such as fever, shortness of breath or dyspnea were associated with the progression of disease, and laboratory examination such as aspartate amino transferase(AST) > 40U/L, creatinine(Cr) ≥ 133mol/l, hypersensitive cardiac troponin I(hs-cTnI) > 28pg/mL, procalcitonin(PCT) > 0.5mg/L predicted the deterioration of disease.
About
This article is published in Journal of Infection.The article was published on 2020-04-23 and is currently open access. It has received 1743 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Risk factor.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Hospitalization and Mortality among Black Patients and White Patients with Covid-19.

TL;DR: Black race was not associated with higher in-hospital mortality than white race, after adjustment for differences in sociodemographic and clinical characteristics on admission, and black patients had higher prevalences of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease than white patients.
Journal ArticleDOI

Oral Nirmatrelvir for High-Risk, Nonhospitalized Adults with Covid-19

TL;DR: Nirmatrelvir is an orally administered severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 main protease (Mpro) inhibitor with potent pan-human-coronavirus activity in vitro as discussed by the authors .
Journal ArticleDOI

Follow-up study of the pulmonary function and related physiological characteristics of COVID-19 survivors three months after recovery.

TL;DR: Radiological and physiological abnormalities were still found in a considerable proportion of COVID-19 survivors without critical cases 3 months after discharge, and higher level of D-dimer levels on admission could effectively predict impaired DLCO after 3 months discharge.
Posted Content

COVID-19 Generated Changes to Planning and Development Controls in South Australia (preprint)

TL;DR: Nearly 50% COVID-19 patients could not reach obvious clinical and radiological remission within 10 days after hospitalization, and the patients with male sex, anorexia and no fever on admission predicted poor efficacy.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used univariable and multivariable logistic regression methods to explore the risk factors associated with in-hospital death, including older age, high SOFA score and d-dimer greater than 1 μg/mL.
Journal ArticleDOI

A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin

TL;DR: Identification and characterization of a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which caused an epidemic of acute respiratory syndrome in humans in Wuhan, China, and it is shown that this virus belongs to the species of SARSr-CoV, indicates that the virus is related to a bat coronav virus.
Journal ArticleDOI

Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus-Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China.

TL;DR: The epidemiological and clinical characteristics of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)-infected pneumonia in Wuhan, China, and hospital-associated transmission as the presumed mechanism of infection for affected health professionals and hospitalized patients are described.
Related Papers (5)