High Fever, Wide Distribution of Viral Pneumonia, and Pleural Effusion are More Critical Findings at the First Visit in Predicting the Prognosis of COVID-19 : A Single Center, retrospective, Propensity Score-Matched Case-Control Study

© 2023 Shinoda et al..

Introduction: Currently, infection control measures for SARS-COV2 are being relaxed, and it is important in daily clinical practice to decide which findings to focus on when managing patients with similar background factors.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 66 patients who underwent blood tests (complete blood count, blood chemistry tests, and coagulation tests) and thin slice CT between January 1 and May 31, 2020, and performed a propensity score-matched case-control study. Cases and controls were a severe respiratory failure group (non-rebreather mask, nasal high-flow, and positive-pressure ventilation) and a non-severe respiratory failure group, matched at a ratio of 1:3 by propensity scores constructed by age, sex, and medical history. We compared groups for maximum body temperature up to diagnosis, blood test findings, and CT findings in the matched cohort. Two-tailed P-values <0.05 were considered statistically significant.

Results: Nine cases and 27 controls were included in the matched cohort. Significant differences were seen in maximum body temperature up to diagnosis (p=0.0043), the number of shaded lobes (p=0.0434), amount of ground-glass opacity (GGO) in the total lung field (p=0.0071), amounts of GGO (p=0.0001), and consolidation (p=0.0036) in the upper lung field, and pleural effusion (p=0.0117).

Conclusion: High fever, the wide distribution of viral pneumonia, and pleural effusion may be prognostic indicators that can be easily measured at diagnosis in COVID-19 patients with similar backgrounds.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

International journal of general medicine - 16(2023) vom: 09., Seite 2337-2348

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shinoda, Masahiro [VerfasserIn]
Ota, Shinichiro [VerfasserIn]
Yoshida, Yuto [VerfasserIn]
Hirouchi, Takatomo [VerfasserIn]
Shinada, Kanako [VerfasserIn]
Sato, Takashi [VerfasserIn]
Morikawa, Miwa [VerfasserIn]
Ishii, Naoki [VerfasserIn]
Shinkai, Masaharu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Consolidation
Fever
Ground-glass opacity
Journal Article
Pleural effusion
Prognosis

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Date Revised 15.06.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.2147/IJGM.S408907

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM35814695X