• Simone Bastrup Israelsen, Klaus Tjelle Kristiansen, Bettina Hindsberger, Charlotte Suppli Ulrik, Ove Andersen, Magnus Jensen, Sten Andersen, Christian Rasmussen, Henrik L Jørgensen, Christian Østergaard, Bjarne Ørskov Lindhardt, Gitte Kronborg, and Thomas Benfield.
• simone.elisabeth.bastrup.israelsen.02@regionh.dk.
• Dan Med J. 2020 May 15; 67 (6).

IntroductionThe first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 occurred in Denmark on 27 February 2020. On 10 March, the first case of COVID-19 pneumonia was admitted to Hvidovre Hospital.MethodsRetrospective case review of individuals 18 years or older who were admitted consecutively to Hvidovre Hospital from 10 March through 23 April 2020.ResultsA total of 175 individuals were admitted with COVID-19 pneumonia. The median age was 71 years, 48.6% were male and 71% had at least one co-morbidity. The most commonly presenting symptoms were dyspnoea, dry cough, and fever. The majority of patients had lymphopenia, elevated liver function tests and C-reactive protein. Nearly two in three presented with multilobar infiltration by chest X-ray. Respiratory failure leading to invasive mechanical ventilation developed in 27 patients (15.4%). By 20 April, 23 of 175 (13.1%) patients remained hospitalised, 43 (24.6%) had died and 109 (62.3%) had been discharged.ConclusionsThe manifestations of COVID-19 at presentation were similar to those seen in other reports. Our population was older, slightly overrepresented by women and had a high level of co-morbidity. COVID-19 admittance was associated with frequent need of intensive care and mechanical ventilation that was associated with a very high mortality.Fundingnone.Trial Registrationnot relevant.Articles published in the DMJ are “open access”. This means that the articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.

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