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ArticleJournal of medical virology2020

The clinical characteristic of eight patients of COVID-19 with positive RT-PCR test after discharge.

Hong Cao, Lei Ruan, Jian Liu, Wenhui Liao

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Article in Journal of medical virology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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44citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hong CaoDepartment of Gerontology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Lei RuanDepartment of Gerontology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Jian LiuDepartment of Gerontology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Wenhui LiaoDepartment of Gerontology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8015-6918
Tongji Hospital · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The phenomenon of positive real time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) result of SARS-CoV-2 in recovered patients had occurred and the research about these patients was rare. In our study, we did a retrospective review of medical records from COVID-19 patients admitted to one ward of Tongji Hospital of Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology from 10 February to 13 April 2020. From 10 February to 13 April 2020, there were 108 patients of COVID-19 admitted in the one ward of Tongji Hospital. Among them, eight cases were readmission patients because the RT-PCR result of SARS-CoV-2 was positive again after discharge. On the second admission, they had no symptoms and their chest computed tomography was almost normal. Data from laboratory tests of the readmission patients showed that all eight patients had normal white blood cell count, lymphocyte count. The inflammatory factors like procalcitonin and interleukin 6 were normal. After treatment, two patients met the standard and were discharged. The other six patients were still in the hospital because their RT-PCR of SARS-CoV-2 did not get three consecutive negative results and the course of two patients had persisted more than 90 days. We still needed to be alert that these patients could infect other people as a source of infection, and we also needed to be alert that these patients become chronic virus carriers. It also aroused our concern about the discharge standard of COVID-19.

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PandemicsPatient ReadmissionAdultAgedAntiviral AgentsBiomarkersBlood Cell CountCarrier StateChinaCOVID-19COVID-19 Drug TreatmentCOVID-19 TestingFemaleHumansInterleukin-6MaleAntiviral AgentsBiomarkersIL6 protein, humanInterleukin-6Procalcitonincorona virus disease 2019discharge standardpositive RT-PCRreadmissionsevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2

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