Mortality & COVID-19: A Snapshot of a Tertiary Care Facility in Pakistan
Abstract Introduction Ever since Sars CoV-2 infection has started from China and has taken the shape of pandemic the mortality associated with this disease has been under discussion and hypercoagubility, acute severe respiratory syndrome and sepsis with multi organ failure have been accursed as possible reasons of deaths in cases infected with novel Corona virus. We conducted a retrospective analysis of the cases admitted in our high dependency and Intensive care unit and tried to pinpoint the major cause of mortality in our cases.Methods This is a single center retrospective study carried out at Bahria International Hospital Lahore over a 3 month period (May 10th to July 10th 2020) in which we analyzed the clinical and biochemical profiles of the COVID-19 patients who died during this period.Results A total of 108 patients were admitted during this period out of which 11 patients died. 7 of them were men and 4 women. Majority of them had sudden cardiac arrest due to acute coronary syndrome followed by multiorgan dysfunction syndrome and acute respiratory distress syndrome.Conclusion Acute coronary syndrome due to hypercoagubility was the leading cause of death in our patients..
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2021 |
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bioRxiv.org - (2021) vom: 06. Feb. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021 |
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Englisch |
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Rana, Muhammad Asim [VerfasserIn] |
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10.1101/2020.08.25.20181792 |
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| 520 | |a Abstract Introduction Ever since Sars CoV-2 infection has started from China and has taken the shape of pandemic the mortality associated with this disease has been under discussion and hypercoagubility, acute severe respiratory syndrome and sepsis with multi organ failure have been accursed as possible reasons of deaths in cases infected with novel Corona virus. We conducted a retrospective analysis of the cases admitted in our high dependency and Intensive care unit and tried to pinpoint the major cause of mortality in our cases.Methods This is a single center retrospective study carried out at Bahria International Hospital Lahore over a 3 month period (May 10th to July 10th 2020) in which we analyzed the clinical and biochemical profiles of the COVID-19 patients who died during this period.Results A total of 108 patients were admitted during this period out of which 11 patients died. 7 of them were men and 4 women. Majority of them had sudden cardiac arrest due to acute coronary syndrome followed by multiorgan dysfunction syndrome and acute respiratory distress syndrome.Conclusion Acute coronary syndrome due to hypercoagubility was the leading cause of death in our patients. | ||
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