Publications by authors named "Giuseppe Pezzuto"
Background: COVID-19 prognostic factors include age, sex, comorbidities, laboratory and imaging findings, and time from symptom onset to seeking care.
Purpose: The study aim was to evaluate indices combining disease severity measures and time from disease onset to predict mortality of COVID-19 patients admitted to the emergency department (ED).
Materials And Methods: All consecutive COVID-19 patients who underwent both computed tomography (CT) and chest X-ray (CXR) at ED presentation between 27/02/2020 and 13/03/2020 were included.
Arrhythmias (ARs) are potential cardiovascular complication of COVID-19 but may also have a prognostic role. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence and impact of cardiac ARs in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. All-comer patients admitted to the emergency department of Modena University Hospital from 16 March to 31 December 2020 and diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia infection were included in the study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has severely stressed the sanitary systems of all countries in the world. One of the main issues that physicians are called to tackle is represented by the monitoring of pauci-symptomatic COVID-19 patients at home and, generally speaking, everyone the access to the hospital might or should be severely reduced. Indeed, the early detection of interstitial pneumonia is particularly relevant for the survival of these patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The aim of the present study was to compare clinical and electrocardiographic characteristics of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in Modena, Emilia Romagna, Italy.
Methods: Patients admitted to the emergency department for suspected COVID-19 pneumonia from March the 16th to April the 15th were enrolled in the study. COVID-19 pneumonia was confirmed by positive nasopharyngeal swab.