Modified Corona Score can easily identify Covid-19 patients with gastrointestinal symptoms: An Italian proposal.
Gastroenterol Hepatol Bed Bench
; 13(4): 393-395, 2020.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1008308
ABSTRACT
AIM:
We propose the Modified Corona Score (MCorona score), an alternative approach to identifying new likely Covid-19 patients without positive chest images, but with gastrointestinal onset.BACKGROUND:
In April, 2020, a total of 104,291 laboratory-confirmed cases had been documented in Italy; Lombardy, the Northern Italian Region, recorded over 60,000 Covid-19 cases.METHOD:
The MCorona score is built by several laboratory parameters linked between age and gender, ranging from 0 to 10.RESULTS:
Using the preliminary score cut-off of 4, we successfully identified likely Covid-19 patients with gastrointestinal onset. However, more caution is needed, and a larger sample size is required to verify the accuracy and specificity of the score.CONCLUSION:
We propose the complete validation of the MCorona score, an instrument able to diagnose likely Covid-19 patients with symptoms other than respiratory distress.
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Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Gastroenterol Hepatol Bed Bench
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Italy
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