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Medicina-buenos Aires, 2020

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained the world's health systems, highlig... more The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained the world's health systems, highlighting the need to optimize its clinical management and treatment. The usefulness of blood cultures in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia has not been proved. We aim to describe the diagnostic yield of early blood cultures in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in a public hospital in Buenos Aires City. This descriptive observational study included all adult patients with COVID-19 pneumonia admitted to the Internal Medicine ward of Hospital Durand between April 1, 2020 and July 30, 2020, who had blood cultures drawn within 5 days from hospital admission. Among 267 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia, 38 had early blood cultures drawn. No clinically relevant microorganism was isolated from blood and contaminant microorganisms were recovered in 7 (18.4%) patients. This study found no evidence of bacteremia in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Furthermore, the rate of contaminated blood cultures nearly doubles the reported in patients with community acquired pneumonia (10%), which may be explained by unfamiliarity of additional personal protective equipment worn by healthcare workers. Our results advocate against the routine indication of blood cultures upon admission to the Internal Medicine Ward of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. We suggest that blood cultures could only be useful in case of clinical deterioration or suspected hospital-acquired infection.

Medicina, 2020

The clinical features of COVID-19 differ substantially upon the presence (or absence) of viral pn... more The clinical features of COVID-19 differ substantially upon the presence (or absence) of viral pneumonia. The aim of this article was to describe the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients admitted to the Internal Medicine ward, as divided into those with and without pneumonia. This single-center prospective cohort study was conducted in a tertiary teaching public hospital in Buenos Aires City named Hospital General de Agudos Carlos G. Durand. Baseline data collection was performed within 48 hours of admission and patients were followed until discharge or in-hospital death. Epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and radiological characteristics together with treatment data were obtained from the medical records. Of the 417 included, 243 (58.3%) had pneumonia. Median age was 43 years (IQR:32-57) and 222 (53.2%) were female. The overall crude case-fatality rate was 3.8%. None of the COVID-19 patients without pneumonia developed critical disease, required invasive mechanical ven...

Prospective cohort study of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in the Internal Medicine ward of ... more Prospective cohort study of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in the Internal Medicine ward of Hospital Durand: study protocol RESUMEN. INTRODUCCIÓN: Conocer los predictores de mala evolución en pacientes con Enfermedad por Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) permite identificar de forma temprana a los pacientes con peor pronóstico, aportando mejores herramientas a la hora de tomar decisiones clínicas. Se presenta el protocolo de un estudio de cohorte cuyo objetivo principal es identificar factores de riesgo de infección severa, critica y mortalidad en pacientes con COVID-19 internados en el Servicio de Clínica Médica del Hospital Durand (Buenos Aires, Argentina). MÉTODOS: Estudio de cohorte prospectivo con base en un único centro. Se incluirá a todos los pacientes que ingresen al servicio de Clínica Médica con diagnóstico de COVID-19 durante el periodo de estudio. Se recolectarán las características epidemiológicas, clínicas, de laboratorio, radiológicas y los datos de tratamiento, al ingreso y al momento del alta o muerte hospitalaria. El evento final primario es la muerte en la internación; los eventos secundarios son el desarrollo de enfermedad grave y enfermedad crítica, la internación en unidad cerrada y el requerimiento de asistencia respiratoria mecánica.

INTRODUCCION: Conocer los predictores de mala evolucion en pacientes con Enfermedad por Coronavir... more INTRODUCCION: Conocer los predictores de mala evolucion en pacientes con Enfermedad por Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) permite identificar de forma temprana a los pacientes con peor pronostico, aportando mejores herramientas a la hora de tomar decisiones clinicas. Se presenta el protocolo de un estudio de cohorte cuyo objetivo principal es identificar factores de riesgo de infeccion severa, critica y mortalidad en pacientes con COVID-19 internados en el Servicio de Clinica Medica del Hospital Durand (Buenos Aires, Argentina). METODOS: Estudio de cohorte prospectivo con base en un unico centro. Se incluira a todos los pacientes que ingresen al servicio de Clinica Medica con diagnostico de COVID-19 durante el periodo de estudio. Se recolectaran las caracteristicas epidemiologicas, clinicas, de laboratorio, radiologicas y los datos de tratamiento, al ingreso y al momento del alta o muerte hospitalaria. El evento final primario es la muerte en la internacion; los eventos secundarios son el...

Medicina, 2020

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained the world's health systems, hig... more The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained the world's health systems, highlighting the need to optimize its clinical management and treatment. The usefulness of blood cultures in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia has not been proved. We aim to describe the diagnostic yield of early blood cultures in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in a public hospital in Buenos Aires City. This descriptive observational study included all adult patients with COVID-19 pneumonia admitted to the Internal Medicine ward of Hospital Durand between April 1, 2020 and July 30, 2020, who had blood cultures drawn within 5 days from hospital admission. Among 267 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia, 38 had early blood cultures drawn. No clinically relevant microorganism was isolated from blood and contaminant microorganisms were recovered in 7 (18.4%) patients. This study found no evidence of bacteremia in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Furthermore, the rate of contaminated b...

Medicina, Feb 1, 2006

We investigated whether hyponatremia is a risk factor of death in patients hospitalized with comm... more We investigated whether hyponatremia is a risk factor of death in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and estimated the relative risk of death by CAP of other risk factors. The design was prospective multicentre cohort study. In 5 centers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, we studied adults hospitalized with CAP between March 21, 2000 and December 21, 2000. Using stepwise logistic regression, we analyzed risk factors that showed a univariate association with mortality; alpha significance level was 0.05. During a 9-month period, 238 patients were admitted with CAP: 150 (63%) male and 88 (36%) female, mean age 52.99 (+/-20.35) and 55.06 (+/-20.94), respectively. Mortality was 10.5% (25/238). By multivariate analysis, the following variables were statistically associated with evolution: cerebrovascular disease (CD) (B: 2.614, p < 0.001, RRE: 13.6, IC 95%: 3.7-49.6); hyponatremia at admission or during hospitalization (B: 1.994, p<0.001, RRE: 7.3, IC 95%: 2.5-20.8); and elevated blood urea (B: 0.016, p= 0.003, RRE: 1.016, IC 95%: 1.005-1.02). We developed a formula to predict mortality by CAP: P (death) = 1/1 + exp - (-4.03 + 2.61 x l + 1.99 x 2 + 0.016x3), where: x1=CD (yes = 1/ no=0); x2= hyponatremia (yes = 1/ no=0); x3 = blood urea (mg/dl). The predictability was 91.1%. The mortality risk by CAP was statistically higher in patients with CD, hyponatremia and elevated blood urea.

Medicina-buenos Aires, 2020

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained the world's health systems, highlig... more The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained the world's health systems, highlighting the need to optimize its clinical management and treatment. The usefulness of blood cultures in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia has not been proved. We aim to describe the diagnostic yield of early blood cultures in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in a public hospital in Buenos Aires City. This descriptive observational study included all adult patients with COVID-19 pneumonia admitted to the Internal Medicine ward of Hospital Durand between April 1, 2020 and July 30, 2020, who had blood cultures drawn within 5 days from hospital admission. Among 267 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia, 38 had early blood cultures drawn. No clinically relevant microorganism was isolated from blood and contaminant microorganisms were recovered in 7 (18.4%) patients. This study found no evidence of bacteremia in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Furthermore, the rate of contaminated blood cultures nearly doubles the reported in patients with community acquired pneumonia (10%), which may be explained by unfamiliarity of additional personal protective equipment worn by healthcare workers. Our results advocate against the routine indication of blood cultures upon admission to the Internal Medicine Ward of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. We suggest that blood cultures could only be useful in case of clinical deterioration or suspected hospital-acquired infection.

Medicina, 2020

The clinical features of COVID-19 differ substantially upon the presence (or absence) of viral pn... more The clinical features of COVID-19 differ substantially upon the presence (or absence) of viral pneumonia. The aim of this article was to describe the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients admitted to the Internal Medicine ward, as divided into those with and without pneumonia. This single-center prospective cohort study was conducted in a tertiary teaching public hospital in Buenos Aires City named Hospital General de Agudos Carlos G. Durand. Baseline data collection was performed within 48 hours of admission and patients were followed until discharge or in-hospital death. Epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and radiological characteristics together with treatment data were obtained from the medical records. Of the 417 included, 243 (58.3%) had pneumonia. Median age was 43 years (IQR:32-57) and 222 (53.2%) were female. The overall crude case-fatality rate was 3.8%. None of the COVID-19 patients without pneumonia developed critical disease, required invasive mechanical ven...

Prospective cohort study of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in the Internal Medicine ward of ... more Prospective cohort study of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in the Internal Medicine ward of Hospital Durand: study protocol RESUMEN. INTRODUCCIÓN: Conocer los predictores de mala evolución en pacientes con Enfermedad por Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) permite identificar de forma temprana a los pacientes con peor pronóstico, aportando mejores herramientas a la hora de tomar decisiones clínicas. Se presenta el protocolo de un estudio de cohorte cuyo objetivo principal es identificar factores de riesgo de infección severa, critica y mortalidad en pacientes con COVID-19 internados en el Servicio de Clínica Médica del Hospital Durand (Buenos Aires, Argentina). MÉTODOS: Estudio de cohorte prospectivo con base en un único centro. Se incluirá a todos los pacientes que ingresen al servicio de Clínica Médica con diagnóstico de COVID-19 durante el periodo de estudio. Se recolectarán las características epidemiológicas, clínicas, de laboratorio, radiológicas y los datos de tratamiento, al ingreso y al momento del alta o muerte hospitalaria. El evento final primario es la muerte en la internación; los eventos secundarios son el desarrollo de enfermedad grave y enfermedad crítica, la internación en unidad cerrada y el requerimiento de asistencia respiratoria mecánica.

INTRODUCCION: Conocer los predictores de mala evolucion en pacientes con Enfermedad por Coronavir... more INTRODUCCION: Conocer los predictores de mala evolucion en pacientes con Enfermedad por Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) permite identificar de forma temprana a los pacientes con peor pronostico, aportando mejores herramientas a la hora de tomar decisiones clinicas. Se presenta el protocolo de un estudio de cohorte cuyo objetivo principal es identificar factores de riesgo de infeccion severa, critica y mortalidad en pacientes con COVID-19 internados en el Servicio de Clinica Medica del Hospital Durand (Buenos Aires, Argentina). METODOS: Estudio de cohorte prospectivo con base en un unico centro. Se incluira a todos los pacientes que ingresen al servicio de Clinica Medica con diagnostico de COVID-19 durante el periodo de estudio. Se recolectaran las caracteristicas epidemiologicas, clinicas, de laboratorio, radiologicas y los datos de tratamiento, al ingreso y al momento del alta o muerte hospitalaria. El evento final primario es la muerte en la internacion; los eventos secundarios son el...

Medicina, 2020

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained the world's health systems, hig... more The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained the world's health systems, highlighting the need to optimize its clinical management and treatment. The usefulness of blood cultures in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia has not been proved. We aim to describe the diagnostic yield of early blood cultures in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in a public hospital in Buenos Aires City. This descriptive observational study included all adult patients with COVID-19 pneumonia admitted to the Internal Medicine ward of Hospital Durand between April 1, 2020 and July 30, 2020, who had blood cultures drawn within 5 days from hospital admission. Among 267 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia, 38 had early blood cultures drawn. No clinically relevant microorganism was isolated from blood and contaminant microorganisms were recovered in 7 (18.4%) patients. This study found no evidence of bacteremia in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Furthermore, the rate of contaminated b...

Medicina, Feb 1, 2006

We investigated whether hyponatremia is a risk factor of death in patients hospitalized with comm... more We investigated whether hyponatremia is a risk factor of death in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and estimated the relative risk of death by CAP of other risk factors. The design was prospective multicentre cohort study. In 5 centers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, we studied adults hospitalized with CAP between March 21, 2000 and December 21, 2000. Using stepwise logistic regression, we analyzed risk factors that showed a univariate association with mortality; alpha significance level was 0.05. During a 9-month period, 238 patients were admitted with CAP: 150 (63%) male and 88 (36%) female, mean age 52.99 (+/-20.35) and 55.06 (+/-20.94), respectively. Mortality was 10.5% (25/238). By multivariate analysis, the following variables were statistically associated with evolution: cerebrovascular disease (CD) (B: 2.614, p < 0.001, RRE: 13.6, IC 95%: 3.7-49.6); hyponatremia at admission or during hospitalization (B: 1.994, p<0.001, RRE: 7.3, IC 95%: 2.5-20.8); and elevated blood urea (B: 0.016, p= 0.003, RRE: 1.016, IC 95%: 1.005-1.02). We developed a formula to predict mortality by CAP: P (death) = 1/1 + exp - (-4.03 + 2.61 x l + 1.99 x 2 + 0.016x3), where: x1=CD (yes = 1/ no=0); x2= hyponatremia (yes = 1/ no=0); x3 = blood urea (mg/dl). The predictability was 91.1%. The mortality risk by CAP was statistically higher in patients with CD, hyponatremia and elevated blood urea.