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- Title
Modified Corona Score can easily identify Covid-19 patients with gastrointestinal symptoms: an Italian proposal.
- Authors
Assandri, Roberto; Montanelli, Alessandro
- Abstract
Aim: We propose the Modified Corona Score (MCorona score), an alternative approach to identifying new likely Covid-19 patients without positive chest images, but with gastrointestinal onset. Background: In April, 2020, a total of 104,291 laboratory-confirmed cases had been documented in Italy; Lombardy, the Northern Italian Region, recorded over 60,000 Covid-19 cases. Method: The MCorona score is built by several laboratory parameters linked between age and gender, ranging from 0 to 10. Results: Using the preliminary score cut-off of 4, we successfully identified likely Covid-19 patients with gastrointestinal onset. However, more caution is needed, and a larger sample size is required to verify the accuracy and specificity of the score. Conclusion: We propose the complete validation of the MCorona score, an instrument able to diagnose likely Covid-19 patients with symptoms other than respiratory distress.
- Subjects
ITALY; AGE distribution; GASTROINTESTINAL diseases; HOSPITAL laboratories; POLYMERASE chain reaction; SEX distribution; REVERSE transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; LABORATORY test panels; COVID-19; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Gastroenterology & Hepatology from Bed to Bench, 2020, Vol 13, Issue 4, p393
- ISSN
2008-2258
- Publication type
Article