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Clinical and paraclinical indicators of prognosis of COVID-19: Case Study

Abstract:

The coronavirus is a disease that affects the respiratory system, it comes from the SARS-COV-2 virus that belongs to the Beta-coronavirus group which is currently the cause of a high mortality rate worldwide. The diagnosis through images and oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal tests help in the identification of this respiratory illness. We present a clinical case of a 74-year-old patient with diarrhea, dyspnea and cough, establishing the diagnosis of COVID-19. We found clinical and paraclinical parameters such as: advanced age, history of arterial hypertension, dyspnea, low oxygen saturation, increased azoados (nitrogen), increased hepatic enzymes (AST), leukocytosis, lymphopenia, neutrophilia, increased PCR and procalcitonin, plaquetopenia, increased lactic dehydrogenase, increased ferritin, pulmonary infiltrate with a frosted glass appearance, evidenced in the X-ray and CT scan of the chest; all these determining factors of unfavorable prognosis according to current scientific evidence are discussed. The results of the case study are discussed.