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ArticleThe Indian journal of medical research

COVID-19 infection in patients with haematological disease - A tertiary centre experience from north India.

Mukul Aggarwal, Mirza Saleem Amjad, Akash Khandelwal, Pradeep Kumar, Rishi Dhawan, Jasmita Dass, Kumar Vishwanathan Ganesh, Punit Khanna, Akhil Kant Singh, Kapil Dev Soni and 8 more

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Mukul AggarwalDepartment of Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Mirza Saleem AmjadDepartment of Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Akash KhandelwalDepartment of Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Pradeep KumarDepartment of Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Rishi DhawanDepartment of Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Jasmita DassDepartment of Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Kumar Vishwanathan GaneshDepartment of Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Punit KhannaDepartment of Anaesthesia, Pain Medicine & Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Akhil Kant SinghDepartment of Anaesthesia, Pain Medicine & Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Kapil Dev SoniDepartment of Trauma Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Richa AgarwalDepartment of Trauma Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Mohan BairwaDepartment of Center for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Arul SelviDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Seema TyagiDepartment of Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Tulika SethDepartment of Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Manoranjan MahapatraDepartment of Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Naveet WigDepartment of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Anjan TrikhaDepartment of Anaesthesia, Pain Medicine & Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

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Abstract

This retrospective study was aimed to understand the clinical, laboratory, radiological parameters and the outcome of COVID-19 patients with underlying haematological disease. All patients with known haematological disease admitted with COVID-19-positive status from April to August 2020 in the COVID-19 facility of a tertiary care centre in north India, were included. Their medical records were analyzed for outcome and mortality risk factors. Fifty four patients, 37 males, were included in the study. Of these, 36 patients had haematological malignancy and 18 had benign disorder. Fever (95.5%), cough (59.2%) and dyspnoea (31.4%) were the most common symptoms. Nine patients had severe disease at diagnosis, mostly malignant disorders. Overall mortality rate was 37.0 per cent, with high mortality seen in patients with aplastic anaemia (50.0%), acute myeloid (46.7%) and lymphoblastic leukaemia (40.0%). On univariate analysis, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status >2 [odd ratio (OR) 11.6], COVID-19 severity (OR 8.2), dyspnoea (OR 5.7) and blood product transfusion (OR 6.4) were the predictors of mortality. However, the presence of moderate or severe COVID-19 (OR 16.6, confidence interval 3.8-72.8) was found significant on multivariate analysis. The results showed that patients with haematological malignancies and aplastic anaemia might be at increased risk of getting severe COVID-19 infection and mortality as compared to the general population.

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Anemia, AplasticCOVID-19Hematologic NeoplasmsDyspneaHumansIndiaMaleRetrospective StudiesCOVID-19haematological malignanciesrisk factors

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PMID35975348
PMCPMC9807201

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