Use of ABO blood groups and co-morbidities as predictors of mortality in COVID-19 patients.

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the mortality relationship between COVID-19 and ABO blood groups and comorbid diseases. The aim of this study was to determine whether ABO blood groups and comorbid diseases can be used as a prognostic factor for hospitalization. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This retrospective study included patients aged ≥ 18 years presenting to the adult emergency COVID-19 outpatient clinic. COVID-19 patients were divided into four stages according to their clinical status: mild, moderate, severe, and critical. Those with the comorbid disease were classified as Group I, and those without comorbid disease were classified as Group II. RESULTS: Of the 384 patients included in the study, 190 (49.5%) were male and 194 (50.5%) were female, with a mean age of 47.3 ± 18.4 years. The clinical data of the patients were scanned from the hospital automation system. Although the risk of transmission was higher, especially in people with A blood type, this rate was lower in the O blood group. The clinical course of the disease was more severe and the mortality rates were higher in the AB blood group (p < 0.001). In the hospital, 35 people who were treated for COVID-19 disease died. CONCLUSIONS: Certain ABO blood types and comorbid diseases were important risk factors for COVID-19 and were associated with mortality. We found that some ABO blood groups and comorbid diseases are associated with COVID-19 and may be important risk factors. While the risk of transmission of COVID-19 is high in blood group A, we think that the clinical course of COVID-19 may be more severe and the death rate higher in blood group AB.

Evaluation Of Renal Colic Patients Attending The Emergency Department When The Covid 19 Pandemic Was First Announcement

Renal colic cases, which have an important place among patients presenting to the emergency department with pain complaints, have an important place in urological emergencies. In this study, patients who applied to the emergency department with suspected renal colic diagnosis during the Covid-19 pandemic were compared with those in the pre-pandemic period. Patients who applied to the Emergency Department with the colic type flank pain between March 2020 and May 2020 were included in the study. Diagnostic and treatment parameters of 1699 patients, inclu ding 199 pandemic and 1500 pre-pandemic control group, were evaluated in this study. As a result of the evaluation made, it was seen that emergency physicians preferred ultrasonography less during the pandemic period, and mostly resorted to computer tomography method, and in this period, a decrease in the rate of observed kidney stones, an increase ureter stones were observed. During the pandemic period, there has been a considerable decrease in the rate of hospital admissions As a result of postponing treatment of patients with urinary system stones, secondary pyonephrosis and pyelonephritis rates increased approximately 10 times compared to the pre-pandemic period. Copyright © 2022, Yuzuncu Yil Universitesi Tip Fakultesi. All rights reserved.