Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic viral disease affecting also obstetric patients and uncertainties exist about the prognostic role of inflammatory biomarkers and hemocytometry values in patients with this infection. To clarify that, we have assessed the values of several inflammatory biomarkers and hemocytometry variables in a cohort of obstetric patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and we have correlated the values at admission with the need of oxygen supplementation during the hospitalization. Overall, among 62 (27.3%) pregnant women and 165 (72.7%) postpartum women, 21 (9.2%) patients received oxygen supplementation and 2 (0.9%) required admission to intensive care unit but none died. During hospitalization leukocytes (p<0.001), neutrophils (p<0.001), neutrophils to lymphocytes ratio (p<0.001) and C reactive protein (p<0.001) decreased significantly, whereas lymphocytes (p<0.001), platelets (p<0.001) and ferritin (p=0.001) increased. Lymphocyte values at admission were correlated with oxygen need, with a 26% higher risk of oxygen supplementation for each 1000 cells decreases. Overall, in obstetric patients hospitalized with COVID-19, C reactive protein is the inflammatory biomarker that better mirrors the course of the disease whereas D-dimer or ferritin are not reliable predictors of poor outcome. Care to the need of oxygen supplementation should be reserved to patients with reduced lymphocyte values at admission.

Inflammatory biomarkers in pregnant women with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study / A. Lombardi, S.F. Duiella, L. LI PIANI, F. Ceriotti, M. Oggioni, A. Muscatello, A. Bandera, A. Gori, E.M. Ferrazzi. - In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. - ISSN 2045-2322. - 11:1(2021 Jun 25), pp. 13350.1-13350.7. [10.1038/s41598-021-92885-7]

Inflammatory biomarkers in pregnant women with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study

A. Lombardi
Primo
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S.F. Duiella
Secondo
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L. LI PIANI;M. Oggioni;A. Bandera;A. Gori
Penultimo
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E.M. Ferrazzi
Ultimo
2021

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic viral disease affecting also obstetric patients and uncertainties exist about the prognostic role of inflammatory biomarkers and hemocytometry values in patients with this infection. To clarify that, we have assessed the values of several inflammatory biomarkers and hemocytometry variables in a cohort of obstetric patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and we have correlated the values at admission with the need of oxygen supplementation during the hospitalization. Overall, among 62 (27.3%) pregnant women and 165 (72.7%) postpartum women, 21 (9.2%) patients received oxygen supplementation and 2 (0.9%) required admission to intensive care unit but none died. During hospitalization leukocytes (p<0.001), neutrophils (p<0.001), neutrophils to lymphocytes ratio (p<0.001) and C reactive protein (p<0.001) decreased significantly, whereas lymphocytes (p<0.001), platelets (p<0.001) and ferritin (p=0.001) increased. Lymphocyte values at admission were correlated with oxygen need, with a 26% higher risk of oxygen supplementation for each 1000 cells decreases. Overall, in obstetric patients hospitalized with COVID-19, C reactive protein is the inflammatory biomarker that better mirrors the course of the disease whereas D-dimer or ferritin are not reliable predictors of poor outcome. Care to the need of oxygen supplementation should be reserved to patients with reduced lymphocyte values at admission.
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