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Systemic inflammatory index is a novel predictor of intubation requirement and mortality after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Pathogens, ISSN: 2076-0817, Vol: 10, Issue: 1, Page: 1-9
2021
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  • Citations
    33
  • Captures
    98
  • Mentions
    1
    • Blog Mentions
      1
      • Blog
        1
  • Social Media
    29
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      29
      • Facebook
        29

Article Description

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), with an increasing number of deaths worldwide, has created a tragic global health and economic emergency. The disease, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2019 (SARS-CoV-19), is a multi-system inflammatory disease with many of COVID-19-positive patients requiring intensive medical care due to multi-organ failures. Biomarkers to reliably predict the patient’s clinical cause of the virus infection, ideally, to be applied in point of care testing or through routine diagnostic approaches, are highly needed. We aimed to probe if routinely assessed clinical lab values can predict the severity of the COVID-19 course. Therefore, we have retrospectively analyzed on admission laboratory findings in 224 consecutive patients from four hospitals and show that systemic immune inflammation index (SII) is a potent marker for predicting the requirement for invasive ventilator support and for worse clinical outcome of the infected patient. Patients’ survival and severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection could reliably be predicted at admission by calculating the systemic inflammatory index of individual blood values. We advocate this approach to be a feasible and easy-to-implement assay that may be particularly useful to improve patient management during high influx crisis. We believe with this work to contribute to improving infrastructure availability and case management associated with COVID-19 pandemic hurdles.

Bibliographic Details

Muhammad, Sajjad; Fischer, Igor; Naderi, Soheil; Faghih Jouibari, Morteza; Abdolreza, Sheikhrezaei; Karimialavijeh, Ehsan; Aslzadeh, Sara; Mashayekhi, Mahsa; Zojaji, Mohaddeseh; Kahlert, Ulf Dietrich; Hänggi, Daniel

MDPI AG

Medicine; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Immunology and Microbiology

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