Characteristics and Outcome of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Egypt

• Conditions: Characteristics Diseases; Outcome, Fatal
• Interventions: Other: Follow up

• Registration Number: NCT04339322
• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University

Brief Summary

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently declared coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) a public health emergency of international concern. Egypt is one of the countries that has been infected by Covid-19. The characteristics of clinical presentation, laboratory and radiological data are not yet studied. Outcomes of covid-19 in Egypt also have not been described yet.

Detailed Description

Patients admitted to Assiut University hospital, Al Rajhi liver hospital and other covid-19 Quarantine hospitals will be included. The characteristics of patients will be described such as demographic data; age, sex,history of contact to COVID-19 patients or traveling abroad and their clinical manifestation such as fever,cough,shortness of breath, sore throat, diarrhea. Laboratory data will also be included such as blood picture,D-Dimer, serum ferritin, creatinine, liver enzymes, oxygen saturation and covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Radiological data will be described as regarding chest X-ray and/or computed tomography.

Patients will be followed until complications, improvement, transfer to another hospital or death and their outcome will be described.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2020-04
• Study First Submitted: 2020-04-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-04-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-04-07
• Study First Posted: 2020-04-09
• Last Update Posted: 2020-04-09
• Study Start: 2020-05-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-07-30
• Study Completion: 2020-07-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients with diagnosis of Covid-19 .

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients refuse to participate in the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Patients with Covid-19	Follow up	Patients with clinical presentation and confirmed as Covid-19 according to the definition of Egyptian Ministry of Health

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Demographics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the cohort group	2 months	Sheet recording age, sex, co-morbidity,history of contact
Clinical manifestations of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)	2 month	Sheet recording symptoms and signs
Laboratory data of included Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cohort	2 months	blood picture,D-Dimer, creatinine, liver enzymes
Radiological features of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) cohort	2 month	Chest x-ray and/or Computed tomography

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
outcomes of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection in the cohort group	1 week	Data recording of the outcomes of treatment