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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2023

Non-Typical Clinical Presentation of COVID-19 Patients in Association with Disease Severity and Length of Hospital Stay.

Alexandros Skourtis, Konstantinos Ekmektzoglou, Theodoros Xanthos, Stella Stouraitou, Nicoletta Iacovidou

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2023. 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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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Alexandros SkourtisPostgraduate Study Program (MSc) "Resuscitation", School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 27 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6453-8887
Konstantinos EkmektzoglouPostgraduate Study Program (MSc) "Resuscitation", School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 27 Athens, Greece.
Theodoros XanthosDepartment of Midwifery, School of Health and Care Sciences, University of West Attica, 122 43 Aigaleo, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-3670-9305
Stella StouraitouDepartment of Emergency Medicine, "Evangelismos" General Hospital, 106 76 Athens, Greece.
Nicoletta IacovidouPostgraduate Study Program (MSc) "Resuscitation", School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 115 27 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8021-6191
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GREvangelismos Hospital · GRUniversity of West Attica · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThis study aimed to investigate the incidence of non-typical symptoms in ambulatory patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infection and their potential association with disease progression. MATERIALS AND

methodsData on the symptomatology of COVID-19 patients presenting to the fast-track emergency department were collected between March 2020 and March 2021. Fever, cough, shortness of breath, and fatigue-weakness were defined as "typical" symptoms, whereas all other symptoms such as nasal congestion, rhinorrhea, gastrointestinal symptoms, etc., were defined as "non-typical".

resultsA total of 570 COVID-19 patients with a mean age of 42.25 years were included, the majority of whom were male (61.3%; N = 349), and were divided according to their symptoms into two groups. The mean length of hospital stay was found to be 9.5 days. A higher proportion of patients without non-typical symptoms were admitted to the hospital (

conclusionWith the possible exception of gastrointestinal symptoms, non-typical symptoms of COVID-19 at baseline appear to predispose to a milder disease.

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atypical presentationCOVID-19 symptomsemergency departmentICUlength of stay

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