Paucity of cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 among inpatients at a referral hospital in India.
JAAD Int
; 8: 10-15, 2022 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1616576
ABSTRACT
Background:
Varied cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 have been described, but most studies are based on photographic or application-based observations, without a direct observed-based evaluation by dermatologists.Objective:
To study the types of cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 among confirmed inpatients admitted to COVID-19 wards and intensive care units (ICUs).Methods:
This cross-sectional analysis was conducted at a referral hospital in Delhi, India. Four hundred forty consecutive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-confirmed cases diagnosed with moderate or severe COVID-19 and admitted to COVID-19 wards or ICUs, respectively, were included. A cutaneous finding was considered to be associated with COVID-19 if it had been described earlier as a consequence of COVID-19 and was observed at the time of or within the first 48 hours of admission (after excluding drugs and comorbidities as causes).Results:
Two hundred seventy patients with moderate COVID-19 were admitted to COVID-19 wards, whereas 170 with severe disease were admitted to ICUs. Only 7 of the 270 ward patients (2.59%) and 3 of the 170 ICU patients (1.76%) had cutaneous findings associated with COVID-19.Conclusion:
Cutaneous findings attributable to COVID-19 are infrequent, and we believe that these might have been overestimated or overemphasized in earlier studies. Although coagulopathic findings may be associated with severe COVID-19, causation cannot be established in this cross-sectional study.
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Experimental Studies
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Randomized controlled trials
Language:
English
Journal:
JAAD Int
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.jdin.2022.01.001
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