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<Articles JournalTitle="Frontiers in Emergency Medicine">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Frontiers in Emergency Medicine</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2717-3593</Issn>
      <Volume>5</Volume>
      <Issue>3</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>02</Month>
        <Day>09</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">The Relationship between the Results of Coagulation Profile and Severity of Pulmonary Involvement in COVID-19 Patients</title>
    <FirstPage>e31</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>e31</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Mohsen</FirstName>
        <LastName>Ebrahimi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical sciences, Mashhad, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Samaneh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Abiri</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Emergency Medicine, Jahrom University of Medical sciences, Jahrom, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Esmaeal</FirstName>
        <LastName>Rayat Dost</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Emergency Medicine, Jahrom University of Medical sciences, Jahrom, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Fatemeh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Rahmanian</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Emergency Medicine, Jahrom University of Medical sciences, Jahrom, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Mahdi</FirstName>
        <LastName>Foroughian</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical sciences, Mashhad, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Alireza</FirstName>
        <LastName>Abbasi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Infectious Disease, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Mohammad Hashem</FirstName>
        <LastName>Abdi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Nursing, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Poyan</FirstName>
        <LastName>Keshavarz</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Student Research Committee, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Naser</FirstName>
        <LastName>Hatami</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Student Research Committee, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Navid</FirstName>
        <LastName>Kalani</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Research Center for Social Determinants of Health, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Marzieh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Haghbeen</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Women&#x2019;s Health and Disease Research Center, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>12</Month>
        <Day>29</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>12</Month>
        <Day>29</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Introduction: COVID-19 is currently a global pandemic, and coagulation-related mortality has been widely reported in patients suffering from it.&#xA0;Objective: this article aimed to investigate the coagulation profile of COVID-19 patients.&#xA0;Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted using a retrospective research design. We recruited patients with COVID-19 admitted to a hospital from June 15th to July 7th, 2020. Upon patients' entering a blood sample was drawn from each patient for assessing patient&#x2019;s coagulation profile (PT, PTT, INR, Platelet count); and a chest high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scan was performed for each patient. The study patients were divided in to sever group (CO-RADS score 5) and non-sever group (CO-RADS score &lt;5).&#xA0;Results: Thirty-six patients (20 males and 16 females) with a mean age of 54.7&#xB1;17.5 years were studied. Of them, 11 cases (30.56%) had severe pulmonary involvement. Also, the coagulation profiles were longer in the severe group than non-sever group. As well, the means of platelet count that were 232.440 per microliter in the non-severe group and 289.180 per microliter in the severe and non-sever groups, respectively; but still not statistically significant (p&gt;0.05). The Area under the ROC Curve (AUC) for PT and INR was 0.615 and 0.611, respectively. The AUC for platelet count was 0.680 (95% CI: 0.501 to 0.859) and had an acceptable discriminating power.&#xA0;Conclusions: In this study, we did not find any statistically significant relationship between the results of coagulation tests and the severity of pulmonary involvement according to HRCT scan findings in COVID-19 patients. But further analyses suggest that, except PTT, the other coagulation tests (PT, INR, and platelet count) may discriminate severe COVID-19 patients.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://fem.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fem/article/view/619</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://fem.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fem/article/download/619/341</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
