Aim To show if lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) could be symptoms of COVID with validated questionnaires. Methods The 96 COVID patients who were hospitalized at a tertiary center were collected retrospectively. After the exclusion criteria, 46 patients were consisted as the study population. ...
Individual factors may affect the risk of death from COVID-19, but this risk is also known to vary with public health and social measures such as lockdown and shelter-in-place orders8,9. These measures reduce the incidence of COVID-19 infection and therefore result in reduced mortality at...
The FDA has approved the antiviral drug remdesivir (Veklury) and nirmatrelvir with ritonavir(Paxlovid) totreat COVID-19 in some people. Molnupiravir (Lagevrio) hasbeen given emergency use authorization for treating the virus. If you have serious COVID-19 symptoms, you should get one of t...
COVID-19 course due to their compromised physical condition and underlying health conditions.2 During the pandemic caused by Omicron variant, even though the mortality rate of the whole population is low, the mortality in the elderly is still high,2 especially in the early days of the epidemic...
seven million had died. (WHO2022) The initial reports of high infectivity before symptoms were manifest suggested that the pathogen has some unique characteristics, also evident in the unusual number of long-term complications suffered by a small but significant percentage of COVID-19-infected ...
Appendicitis, or inflammation of the appendix, has many different causes. Learn about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, surgery, and complications of appendicitis.
of the pandemic, research studies focused on the management and treatment of severe and critical patients8. Statistics showed that the elderly, especially those with underlying conditions such as heart disease, lung disease, obesity, and diabetes, have the most severe symptoms9,10. As the virus ...
We agree with the suggestion from Scotto di Vetta et al [3] that it should be required to promptly initiate a therapy at the earliest onset of symptoms to stop the progression of COVID-19. This would ultimately reduce the risk of cytokine storm, thrombosis, and, consequently, hospitalization...
(CDC) estimated a 2–14 day range], with the shortest being 1 day and the vast majority within 2 weeks. A proportion of infected subjects may remain asymptomatic. Fever, cough, and shortness of breath were the first typical symptoms of COVID-19 pneumonia initially highlighted by CDC, and...
The mortality rates of COVID-19 vary across the globe. While some risk factors for poor prognosis of the disease are known, regional differences are suspected. We reviewed the risk factors for critical outcomes of COVID-19 according to the location of th