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Unexplained elevation of erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a patient recovering from COVID-19: A case report
BACKGROUND: A disease caused by a novel coronavirus virus, named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), broke out in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and spread around the word. As of March 4, 2020, 93090 confirmed cases and 2984 deaths have been reported in more than 80 countries and territories. It ha...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7896696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33644207 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v9.i6.1394 |
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author | Pu, Sheng-Lan Zhang, Xiang-Yan Liu, Dai-Shun Ye, Ba-Ning Li, Jian-Quan |
author_facet | Pu, Sheng-Lan Zhang, Xiang-Yan Liu, Dai-Shun Ye, Ba-Ning Li, Jian-Quan |
author_sort | Pu, Sheng-Lan |
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description | BACKGROUND: A disease caused by a novel coronavirus virus, named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), broke out in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and spread around the word. As of March 4, 2020, 93090 confirmed cases and 2984 deaths have been reported in more than 80 countries and territories. It has triggered global public health security. However, the features and prognosis of COVID-19 are incompletely understood. CASE SUMMARY: We here report that the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) increased in a confirmed COVID patient. The high level of ESR sustained for a long time even after the patient recovered from COVID-19, while all results related to tumor, tuberculosis, rheumatic diseases, anemia, etc. cannot explain the abnormal elevation of ESR presented in this case. CONCLUSION: Although the increased ESR cannot be explained by all existing evidence, it possibly links the abnormal pathologic change in some COVID-19 patients and negative prognosis, and provides the clue to dissect the mechanism of illness progressing in COVID-19 and its prognosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-78966962021-02-26 Unexplained elevation of erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a patient recovering from COVID-19: A case report Pu, Sheng-Lan Zhang, Xiang-Yan Liu, Dai-Shun Ye, Ba-Ning Li, Jian-Quan World J Clin Cases Case Report BACKGROUND: A disease caused by a novel coronavirus virus, named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), broke out in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and spread around the word. As of March 4, 2020, 93090 confirmed cases and 2984 deaths have been reported in more than 80 countries and territories. It has triggered global public health security. However, the features and prognosis of COVID-19 are incompletely understood. CASE SUMMARY: We here report that the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) increased in a confirmed COVID patient. The high level of ESR sustained for a long time even after the patient recovered from COVID-19, while all results related to tumor, tuberculosis, rheumatic diseases, anemia, etc. cannot explain the abnormal elevation of ESR presented in this case. CONCLUSION: Although the increased ESR cannot be explained by all existing evidence, it possibly links the abnormal pathologic change in some COVID-19 patients and negative prognosis, and provides the clue to dissect the mechanism of illness progressing in COVID-19 and its prognosis. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2021-02-26 2021-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7896696/ /pubmed/33644207 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v9.i6.1394 Text en ©The Author(s) 2021. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Pu, Sheng-Lan Zhang, Xiang-Yan Liu, Dai-Shun Ye, Ba-Ning Li, Jian-Quan Unexplained elevation of erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a patient recovering from COVID-19: A case report |
title | Unexplained elevation of erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a patient recovering from COVID-19: A case report |
title_full | Unexplained elevation of erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a patient recovering from COVID-19: A case report |
title_fullStr | Unexplained elevation of erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a patient recovering from COVID-19: A case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Unexplained elevation of erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a patient recovering from COVID-19: A case report |
title_short | Unexplained elevation of erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a patient recovering from COVID-19: A case report |
title_sort | unexplained elevation of erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a patient recovering from covid-19: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7896696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33644207 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v9.i6.1394 |
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