The Clinical Form of COVID-19 and the Impact on the Course and Outcome of the Disease: Experiences from Tuzla Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dilista Piljic, Humera J. Porobic, Rahima Jahic, Jasminka Petrovic, Denis Zepic, Raza Smajic, Sefika Umihanic, Sanda Kreitmayer Pestic.
Abstract
Background: Covid-19 primarily manifests itself as a respiratory disease, but also with numerous extrapulmonary symptoms and complications. The clinical form of the disease before hospitalization, has a great influence on the further course and occurrence of complications of the disease. Objective: To analyze the clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with moderate and severe clinical form of the disease, the complications that developed in these patients during hospitalization and the outcome of the disease. Methods: The retrospective study included 520 patients from the Tuzla Canton, treated in the COVID-19 Hospital at University Clinical Center Tuzla in the period from March 27 to October 1, 2020. The source of data were the medical records of hospitalized patients. The clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with moderate and severe clinical form of the disease and the complications that developed in these patients during hospitalization were analyzed. Results: The number of hospitalized men was statistically significantly higher, p=0.000. Most patients were in the age group of 60-69 years: 152 (29.3%), then in the age group of 50-59 years: 119 (22.9%). Women 70 years more often a severe clinical form of the disease, p
Key words: Covid-19, clinical form of the disease, complications.
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