Clinical features of 85 fatal cases of COVID-19 from Wuhan: A retrospective observational study

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 201, Issue 11, 2020, Pages 1372-1379

  Du, Yingzhen ^a   Tu, Lei ^c   Zhu, Pingjun ^a   Mu, Mi ^a   Wang, Runsheng ^a   Yang, Pengcheng ^d,e   Wang, Xi ^a   Hu, Chao ^b   Ping, Rongyu ^b   Hu, Peng ^b   Li, Tianzhi ^b   Cao, Feng ^b   Chang, Christopher ^f,g   Hu, Qinyong ^d,e   Jin, Yang ^c   Xu, Guogang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR GERIATRIC DISORDERS   (China)

^b CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d RENMIN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Wuhan Hannan First Middle School   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Cleft Craniofacial Surgery Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Copathogen; Coronavirus disease 2019; Eosinophilopenia; Fatal cases; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROCALCITONIN; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2B INTERFERON; ALPHA2B INTERFERON; D DIMER; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANTIFUNGAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYALGIA; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN THERAPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SHOCK; SORE THROAT; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOMITING; BETACORONAVIRUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PANDEMIC; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FATIGUE; HEMATOCRIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PLATELET COUNT; PROGNOSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85083246188     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202003-0543OC     Document Type: Article

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