ReviewInternal and emergency medicine2020
Does this patient have COVID-19? A practical guide for the internist.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- CfDNA as a surrogate marker for COVID-19 severity in patients with influenza-like symptoms with and without SARS-CoV-2 infection in general practice: a prospective cohort study.Virology journal · 2025Article
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- Acute Q fever in patients with an influenza-like illness in regional New South Wales, Australia.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- SARS-CoV-2 in brief: from virus to prevention.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2022Article
- Patient profile and antibiotic use in a dedicated upper respiratory tract infection clinic based in a primary healthcare setting during COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia: A cross sectional study.Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia · 2022Article
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- Acid base disorders in patients with COVID-19.International urology and nephrology · 2022Article
- Prolonged Postoperative Pyrexia and Transient Nonnephrogenic Vasopressin-Analogue-Resistant Polyuria following Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Resection of an Infundibular Epidermoid Cyst.Case reports in neurological medicine · 2021Article
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- Routine blood tests as an active surveillance to monitor COVID-19 prevalence. A retrospective study.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2020Article
- Pulmonary embolism and screening for concomitant proximal deep vein thrombosis in noncritically ill hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019.Internal and emergency medicine · 2020Review
- "COVID-19: diagnosis, management and prognosis": a new topical collection of Internal and Emergency Medicine.Internal and emergency medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently causing a pandemic and will likely persist in endemic form in the foreseeable future. Physicians need to correctly approach this new disease, often representing a challenge in terms of differential diagnosis. Although COVID-19 lacks specific signs and symptoms, we believe internists should develop specific skills to recognize the disease, learning its 'semeiotic'. In this review article, we summarize the key clinical features that may guide in differentiating a COVID-19 case, requiring specific testing, from upper respiratory and/or influenza-like illnesses of other aetiology. We consider two different clinical settings, where availability of the different diagnostic strategies differs widely: outpatient and inpatient. Our reasoning highlights how challenging a balanced approach to a patient with fever and flu-like symptoms can be. At present, clinical workup of COVID-19 remains a hard task to accomplish. However, knowledge of the natural history of the disease may aid the internist in putting common and unspecific symptoms into the correct clinical context.
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