Vaccine Research
Vaccine Research
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Medical Sciences
http://vacres.pasteur.ac.ir
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2021
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Two Months Follow-Up of 139 Unvaccinated COVID-19 Patients Based on Clinical and Imaging Data
Infectious diseases
Infectious diseases
Original article
Original article
<strong>Introduction:</strong> To understand the effects of COVID-19 vaccines it would be essential to have knowledge about the effects of the disease during the time that vaccines were unavailable. Hence, we tracked the clinical outcomes of Iranian COVID-19 patients during Feb 19th till May 1st 2020 by a longitudinal follow-up study of patients discharged from a university hospital in Iran. <strong>Methods:</strong> Demographic, clinical, and paraclinical data (chest CT scan imaging, and RT-PCR tests) of 139 patients were collected at the admission time. Preliminary clinical, radiological, laboratory, treatment information, and follow up results were extracted and collected from patients' records. <strong>Results:</strong> The mean age of the patients was 60.56±16.32 years. The most common symptoms on admission were dyspnea (79.1%), coughing (77.3%) and fever (73.1%). The common radiological pattern was multifocal patchy ground-glass infiltration. The patients were followed-up for 8 weeks by phone call. During discharge, 24.8% of the patients had no symptoms, the common residue symptoms were weakness and malaise (48.2%), dyspnea (38.7%), coughing (20.4%), hyposmia (18.5%). On week 8, 74.6% of the patients had no symptom. Moreover, 47.14% of CT scan results improved after 4 weeks and 43.39% after 8 weeks. <strong>Conclusion</strong>: Further follow-up studies are required to determine other detrimental illnesses related to the disease and how vaccination against COVID-19 can affect them.
COVID-19, follow-up, discharged patient, clinical outcome, radiologic outcome
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http://vacres.pasteur.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-3363-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1
Mehrangiz
Zangeneh
zangeneh4@yahoo.com
10031947532846003856
10031947532846003856
No
Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; Treata Private Hospital, Tehran, Iran; C. Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
Yasamin
Khosravani-Nezhad
jasminegoli@yahoo.com
10031947532846003857
10031947532846003857
No
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Mohsen
Alijani
mhs_alijani@yahoo.com
10031947532846003858
10031947532846003858
No
Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Behnam
Farhoodi
b_farhoudi@yahoo.com
10031947532846003859
10031947532846003859
No
Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Hamid-Reza
Massumi-Naini
massumi44@yahoo.com
10031947532846003860
10031947532846003860
No
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Seyed-Davar
Siadat
d.siadat@gmail.com
10031947532846003861
10031947532846003861
No
Department of Mycobacteriology and Pulmonary Research, Microbiology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Masoomeh
Mesgarian
m88mesgarian@gmail.com
10031947532846003862
10031947532846003862
Yes
Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran