Clinical, laboratory characteristics and outcomes of PCR confirmed (Covid-19) cases in EgyptAir hospital | ||
| Journal of Recent Advances in Medicine | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 15 November 2025 | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jram.2025.418401.1291 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Sara Adel Afify* 1; Taghreed Saied Farag2; Omaima Ibrahim Abo-Elkheir3; Heba Hamed Eltrawy4 | ||
| 1pulmonary medicine specialist, EgyptAir hospital, Cairo, Egypt | ||
| 2Professor of chest diseases, faculty of medicine, Al-Azhar University | ||
| 3Professor of community medicine, faculty of medicine, Al-Azhar University | ||
| 4Assistant professor of chest diseases, Faculty of medicine, Al-Azhar Universty | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Introduction: Rapid progress of the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) forced the World Health Organization (WHO) to state it a pandemic on 11 March 2020 ]1 [ Aim: assess clinical, sociodemographic data laboratory characteristics and outcome of PCR confirmed Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Cases in EgyptAir Hospital from November 2020 to October 2021 Methods: retrospective cohort study, was collected from patients' data in files registered at the EgyptAir Hospital, starting from 1st November 2020 to end of October 2021. The total number of data file of patients meeting the inclusion criteria was 630 patients. Results: The ages of the studied cases ranged from 17-93 years with most prevalent age group was aging between 60 -93 years accounting for near 2/3 of patients, with male predominance (male to female ratio 2:1), more than half of them were retired and the most affected patients were non-smokers. Most of them lived in urban areas, 97% of patients presented by CT abnormalities mostly showing bilateral findings with lower lung zone predilection and peripheral distribution. The most prominent CT abnormality was GGO, followed by patchy consolidation. Nearly half of the studied cases (46.6%) suffer from serious illnesses. there was statistical significance as regards the relation between age and case severity as more than 2/3 of critically ill patients were among patients aged above 60 years. There was a statistical significance difference between the studied cases in relation to case severity regarding leucocyte levels, absolute lymphocyte levels and D-Dimer levels at time of admission, where the highest levels of leukocytosis, lymphocytosis and D-Dimer were among the group of critically ill patients. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Covid-19; D-Dimer; PCR | ||
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