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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

Ruling Out Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Patients with Pneumonia: The Role of Blood Cell Count and Lung Ultrasound.

Gianni Biolo, Nicola Fiotti, Franco Cominotto, Filippo Giorgio Di Girolamo, Emiliano Panizon, Nicola Altamura, Chiara Casarsa, Alessandro Pipoli, Mauro Giordano, Lucio Torelli and 2 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Gianni BioloClinica Medica, Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6397-1598
Nicola FiottiClinica Medica, Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Franco CominottoEmergency Department, ASUGI, Ospedale di Cattinara, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Filippo Giorgio Di GirolamoClinica Medica, Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Emiliano PanizonClinica Medica, Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Nicola AltamuraClinica Medica, Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Chiara CasarsaClinica Medica, Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Alessandro PipoliClinica Medica, Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Mauro GiordanoDepartment of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania, L. Vanvitelli, 80131 Naples, Italy.
Lucio TorelliBiostatistics Unit, Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Filippo MearelliClinica Medica, Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
Pierandrea VinciClinica Medica, Department of Medical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
University of Trieste · ITOspedale di Cattinara · ITUniversity of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is characterized by a distinctive blood leucocyte pattern and B-lines on lung ultrasound (LUS) as marker of alveolar-interstitial syndrome. We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of blood leucocyte count alone or in combination with LUS for COVID-19 diagnosis. We retrospectively enrolled consecutive patients diagnosed with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) at hospital admission to derive and validate cutoff values for blood cell count that could be predictive of COVID-19 before confirmation by the nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT). Cutoff values, generated and confirmed in inception (41/115, positive/negative patients) and validation (100/180, positive/negative patients) cohorts, were ≤17 and ≤10 cells/mm

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basophilscommunity acquired pneumoniaCOVID-19eosinophilslung ultrasound

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PMID34441777
PMCPMC8397060
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