NCT04339322

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

Characteristics and Outcome of COVID-19 Among Egyptian Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Assiut University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: —

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.

Conditions

• Characteristics Diseases
• Outcome, Fatal

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Follow up	Follow up to assess the outcome until complications, improvement, death or being transferred to another quarantine hospital.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-05-01
• Primary completion: 2020-07-30
• Completion: 2020-07-30
• First posted: 2020-04-09
• Last updated: 2020-04-09