Letter to the Editor

https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2020.030402

Laboratory markers included in the Corona Score can identify false negative results on COVID-19 RT-PCR in the emergency room

Roberto Assandri ; Clinical Investigation Laboratory, ASST-Crema, Maggiore Hospital, Crema, Italy
Ciro Canetta ; Internal Medicine Unit, ASST-Crema, Maggiore Hospital, Crema, Italy
Giovanni Viganò ; Emergency Medicine Unit,ASST-Crema, Maggiore Hospital, Crema, Italy
Elisabetta Buscarini ; Gastroenterology Department, ASST-Crema, Maggiore Hospital, Crema, Italy
Alessandro Scartabellati ; Pneumology 2 Department, ASST-Crema Maggiore Hospital, Crema, Italy
Alessandro Montanelli ; Clinical Investigation Laboratory, ASST-Bergamo Est, Bolognini Hospital Seriate, Bergamo, Italy

Abstract

After December 2019 outbreak in China, the novel Coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has very quickly overflowed worldwide. Infection causes a clinical syndrome encompassing a wide range of clinical features, from asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic course to acute respiratory distress and death. In a very recent work we preliminarily observed that several laboratory tests have been shown as characteristically altered in COVID-19. We aimed to use the Corona score, a validated point-based algorithm to predict the likelihood of COVID-19 infection in patients presenting at the Emergency rooms. This approach combines chest images-relative score and several laboratory parameters to classify emergency room patients. Corona score accuracy was satisfactory, increasing the detection of positive patients’ rate.

Keywords

COVID-19; Emergency room; RT-PCR; laboratory markers; Corona score

Hrčak ID:

244715

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/244715

Publication date:

15.10.2020.

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