• Turk J Med Sci · Dec 2020

    COVID-19 experience of the major pandemic response center in the capital: Results of the pandemic's first month in Turkey.

    • Rahmet Güner, İmran Hasanoğlu, Bircan Kayaaslan, Adalet Aypak, Ayşe Kaya Kalem, Fatma Eser, Burcu Özdemir, Elif Mukime Sarıcaoğlu, Müge Ayhan, Yeşim Aybar Bilir, Işıl Özkoçak Turan, Deniz Erdem, Nevzat Mehmet Mutlu, Turan Buzğan, Bedia Dinç, and Esragül Akıncı.
    • Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Yıldırım Beyazıt University School of Medicine,Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
    • Turk J Med Sci. 2020 Dec 17; 50 (8): 180118091801-1809.

    Background/AimThe aim of this study is to evaluate the epidemiological and clinical characteristics and parameters that determined the clinical course and prognosis of the COVID-19 patients admitted to Ankara City Hospital during the first month of the pandemic in Turkey.Materials And MethodsSARS-CoV-2 PCR positive patients who were hospitalized between March 10 and April 10, 2020 were included.ResultsAmong 222 patients, mean age was higher in severe acute respiratory illness (SARI)/critical disease group (P < 0.001). Median time from illness onset to admission and presence of comorbidity, especially coronary artery disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, were significantly higher in the SARI/critical disease group (P < 0.05). Cough and fever were the most common symptoms, while anosmia and loss of taste were observed in 8.6% and 7.7% patients, respectively. The mortality rate was 5.4%. A high neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio; low lymphocyte, monocyte, and platelet count; elevated liver enzymes; low GFR; and high levels of muscle enzymes, ferritin, and IL-6 on admission were found to be associated with SARI/critical disease (P < 0.05). Bilateral ground-glass opacity and patchy infiltration were more frequently seen in the SARI/critical disease group (P < 0.001). Patients older than 65 years had an 8-fold increased risk for development of SARI/critical disease.ConclusionThis cohort study regarding COVID-19 cases in Turkey reveals that older age, presence of comorbidity, bilateral infiltration on CT, high neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio, low monocyte and platelet count, elevated liver enzymes, low GFR, high levels of muscle enzymes, and high levels of ferritin and IL-6 on admission are predictors of SARI and severe disease.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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