Hematological findings of COVID-19 patients at the time of admission
The comparison of hematological parameters at the time of admission of patients who respond to treatment and can be discharged and patients who do not respond to treatment and have mortality were depicted in table 1. Median age was significantly higher in patients who do not respond to treatment and have mortality (p<0.001). Most of the patients with mortality were males (p=0.001). There was a statistically significant difference in the parameters other than monocyte and basophil among the hemogram parameters checked at the time of presentation. Neutrophil / lymphocyte ratio was significantly higher in patients with mortality (p<0.001). In addition, when we evaluated ferritin (p<0.001), D-dimer (p<0.001) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) (p<0.001), among other parameters, mortality was found to be significantly higher in both parameters at the time of admission to hospital. Among the other biochemical parameters of the patients, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), creatine kinase (CK), urea and uric acid were found to be statistically significantly higher at the time of admission to the hospital in patients with mortality, while albumin was found to be statistically significantly lower (p<0.001).
Table 1. The comparison of laboratory parameters at the time of admission for all hospitalized patients