• Eurosurveillance · Apr 2020

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    Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) early findings from a teaching hospital in Pavia, North Italy, 21 to 28 February 2020.

    • Marta Colaneri, Paolo Sacchi, Valentina Zuccaro, Simona Biscarini, Michele Sachs, Silvia Roda, Teresa Chiara Pieri, Pietro Valsecchi, Antonio Piralla, Elena Seminari, Angela Di Matteo, Stefano Novati, Laura Maiocchi, Layla Pagnucco, Marcello Tirani, Fausto Baldanti, Francesco Mojoli, Stefano Perlini, Raffaele Bruno, and COVID19 IRCCS San Matteo Pavia Task Force.
    • Division of Infectious Diseases I, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
    • Eurosurveillance. 2020 Apr 1; 25 (16).

    AbstractWe describe clinical characteristics, treatments and outcomes of 44 Caucasian patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a single hospital in Pavia, Italy, from 21-28 February 2020, at the beginning of the outbreak in Europe. Seventeen patients developed severe disease, two died. After a median of 6 days, 14 patients were discharged from hospital. Predictors of lower odds of discharge were age > 65 years, antiviral treatment and for severe disease, lactate dehydrogenase > 300 mg/dL.

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