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Clinical, Radiological and Therapeutic Characteristics of Patients with COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Shabrawishi; Manal M Al-Gethamy; Abdallah Y Naser; Mahe A Ghazawi; Ghaidaa F Alsharif; Elaf F Obaid; Haitham A Melebari; Dhaffer M Alamri; Ahmad S Brinji; Fawaz H Al Jehani; Wail Almaimani; Rakan A Ekram; Kasim H Alkhatib; Hassan Alwafi.
Affiliation
  • Mohammed Shabrawishi; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Manal M Al-Gethamy; Department of Infection Prevention and Control Programme, Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Abdallah Y Naser; Faculty of Pharmacy, Isra University, Amman, Jordan.
  • Mahe A Ghazawi; Department of Radiology, Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Ghaidaa F Alsharif; Department of Internal Medicine, Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Elaf F Obaid; Department of Internal Medicine, Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Haitham A Melebari; Department of Internal Medicine, King Faisal General Hospital, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Dhaffer M Alamri; Department of Infection Prevention and Control Programme, Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Ahmad S Brinji; Department of Radiology, Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Fawaz H Al Jehani; Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Wail Almaimani; Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Rakan A Ekram; School of Public Health and Health Informatics, Umm Al Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Kasim H Alkhatib; Intensive Care Department, Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • Hassan Alwafi; Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Preprint in English | medRxiv | ID: ppmedrxiv-20094169
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUNDCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a rapidly spreading global pandemic. The clinical characteristics of COVID-19 has been reported; however, there are limited researches that investigated the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in the Middle East. The aim of this study is to investigate the clinical, radiological and therapeutic characteristics of patients diagnosed with COVID19 in Saudi Arabia. METHODSThis study is a retrospective single-centre case series study. We extracted data for patients who were admitted to the Al-Noor Specialist hospital with a PCR confirmed SARS-COV-2 between 12th and 31st of March 2020. Descriptive statistics were used to describe patients characteristics. Continuous data were reported as mean {+/-} SD. Chi-squared test/Fisher test were used as appropriate to compare proportions for categorical variables. RESULTSA total of 150 patients were hospitalised for COVID-19 during the study period. The mean age was 46.1 years (SD 15.3 years). Around 61.0% (n= 90) were males and six patients (3.9%) reported working in the healthcare sector. The most common comorbidities were hypertension (28.8%, n= 42) and diabetes mellitus (26.0%, n= 38). The majority of the patients, 64.4% (n = 96) had a recent contact history with a COVID patient. Regarding the severity of the hospitalised patients, 105 patients (70.0%) were mild, 29 (19.3%) were moderate, and 16 patients (10.7%) were severe or required ICU care. From the 105 mild patients, around 31.3% (n= 47) were asymptomatic. CONCLUSIONThis case series provides clinical, radiological and therapeutic characteristics of hospitalised patients with confirmed COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia.
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Full text: Available Collection: Preprints Database: medRxiv Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study Language: English Year: 2020 Document type: Preprint
Full text: Available Collection: Preprints Database: medRxiv Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study Language: English Year: 2020 Document type: Preprint
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