Corona Virus/ COVID 19 | Reliable Medical Information | Reliable Lay Information
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  1. Symptoms and signs:

     

    Fever, cough and dispnea. There are a lot of other symptoms and signs, but these were, by far, the most common!

     

     

     

    SEVERITY INDICATORS:

     

    Dispnea is an indicator of severity.

     

     

    Bilateral pneumonia.

     

    Elevated D-dimer.

    D-dimer testing is of clinical use when there is a suspicion of deep venous thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE) or disseminated intravascular coagulation(DIC).

    D-dimer (or D dimer) is a fibrin degradation product (or FDP), a small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis.

     

     

     

    Some of the patients show linfopenia - decreased lymphocytes

     

    C-reactive protein elevated

     

    Erythrocyte sedimentation rate increased

     

    LDH elevada

     

    Incubation period 2 to 7 days

     

    CBCT is very sensitive