Millions of people had been infected by COVID-19 world- wide. There is a certain percentage of patients who progressing to severe condition requiring intensive care. identification of patients who are at a high risk of severe infections could play a role in good management .

Associated comorbidities in Covid-19 patients may play an important role in patient deterioration to more severe condition

among such comorbidities; impairement of renal function .

Aim of the work

is to show demographic data and the difference of renal function tests among Covid-19 patients and correlation between them and their severity .

Subjects and methods

The present study was carried out at the Clinical Pathology Department, Chest department, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt through the period from May 2021 to March 2022. It was conducted on 70 individuals after ethical committee approval and a written consent was obtained from relatives of each patient.

The subjucts of the study were devided into control group(group II ) and diseased patient group(group I ),the latter was subdivided according to severity into 3 groups ( moderate,severe and critical ) .

All the study subjects were submitted to history taking considering age and sex and submitted to routine laboratory investigations that include CBC, Random glucose level, coagulation profile and liver function tests .

Results

There was statistical significant difference between the studied groups regarding serum urea and creatinin , but no regarding demographic data .