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Clinical and Hematological Characteristics of COVID- 19 at Presentation: Egyptian Multicenter Descriptive Study

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Abstract

Background: Since the Ministry of Health and Population [MOHP] in Egypt had declared the appearance of the first COVID- 19 confirmed case in Egypt on February 14, 2020. Strict measures were taken to control the virus spread, including the identification of some centers for triage and others for quarantine.
The aim of the work: The goal of our research was to determine the clinical and hematological results of COVID-19 confirmed patients at two specialized triage hospitals.
Patients and Methods: This was an observational prospective cohort in which we included all adult patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 by RT-PCR of samples taken by nasopharyngeal swabs attended to two Egyptian hospitals that, assigned by MOHP as a triage center for COVID-19, in the period between 5th April to 27th August 2020. The clinical characteristics and hematological findings at presentation were studied.
Results: This study included 200 consecutive COVID-19 confirmed patients from both hospitals, fever [75%] was the main presenting symptom followed by cough [71%] then dyspnea [20%]. [41%] of the patients had lymphopenia, [5%] had lymphocytosis, [11.5%] had neutrophilia, [2%] had thrombocytopenia, and [30.5%] had anemia.
Conclusion: COVID-19 could be presented typically by pulmonary or atypically by various extrapulmonary manifestations in addition to different hematological laboratory findings.  

DOI

10.21608/ijma.2021.102062.1381

Keywords

Covid- 19, Triage, Clinical, hematological, Egyptians

Authors

First Name

Abdelmajeed

Last Name

Moussa

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt.

Email

dr.abdomm@gmail.com

City

Aswan

Orcid

0000-0002-9440-6241

First Name

Samy

Last Name

Zaky

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Hepatogastroenetrology and Infectious diseases, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University, Egypt.

Email

samyzs55@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0003-4123-9221

First Name

Hossam

Last Name

Hosny

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

h-h-masoud@hotmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Gehan

Last Name

Elassal

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

gelassal2006@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Noha

Last Name

Asem

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

noha_asem@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Elbadry

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Endemic Medicine, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

melbadry2002@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-9020-8870

First Name

Fathiya

Last Name

El-Raey

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Hepatogastroenetrology and Infectious diseases, Damietta Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt.

Email

faresmd76@yahoo.com

City

Damietta

Orcid

-

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Elshemy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Hepatogastroenetrology and Infectious diseases, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University, Egypt.

Email

dr.emanelshemy@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Amin

Last Name

Abdel Baki

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Hepatogastroenetrology and Infectious Diseases, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

dr_amin114@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ehab

Last Name

Kamal

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Tropical Medicine Medical Research Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt.

Email

ehabkamal2011@hotmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Maher

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Zoonotic diseases, National Research Center, Giza, Egypt.

Email

ahmedmaherhashim@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Tahoon

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department Epidemiology and preventive medicine, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Egypt.

Email

marwa.123ali@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Shazly

Last Name

Baghdady

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt.

Email

shazly_md@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Akram

Last Name

Abdelbary

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

akram.ahmed@kasralainy.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Said

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

ahmed.said@kasralainy.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Hamdy

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Tropical Medicine Medical Research Division, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt.

Email

hamdi1962.hi@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Khaled

Last Name

Taema

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

khaled.toaima@kasralainy.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Wagdy

Last Name

Amin

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Ministry of Health, Egypt

Email

drwagdy@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Emad

Last Name

Balah

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Infectious Diseases, Damietta Fever Hospital, Ministry of Health, Egypt.

Email

emadbalah395@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Amira

Last Name

Hodiehed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology department, Damietta Fever Hospital, Ministry of Health, Egypt.

Email

dr.amira1978@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

Shawky

Affiliation

Department of Chest Diseases and Bronchoscopy, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.

Email

ashawky_72@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Roshdy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Chest Diseases, Damietta Fevers Hospital, Ministry of Health, Egypt.

Email

aroshdy68@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abdallah

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Chest Diseases, Damietta Fevers Hospital, Ministry of Health, Egypt.

Email

dr.ahmed1503@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Elnady

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

mohamed.hakim@kasaraliny.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Hassany

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Hepatogastroenetrology and Infectious Diseases, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

mohamadhassany@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohammad

Last Name

Hegazy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Hepatogastroenetrology and Infectious diseases, Damietta Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Egypt.

Email

msahegazy80@yahoo.com

City

KSA

Orcid

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Clinical and Hematological Characteristics of COVID- 19 at Presentation: Egyptian Multicenter Descriptive Study

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22 Jan 2023