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. 2020 Aug 6;15(8):e0237130.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237130. eCollection 2020.

Clinical, radiological and therapeutic characteristics of patients with COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Shabrawishi  1   2 , Manal M Al-Gethamy  3 , Abdallah Y Naser  4 , Maher A Ghazawi  5 , Ghaidaa F Alsharif  2 , Elaf F Obaid  2 , Haitham A Melebari  6 , Dhaffer M Alamri  3 , Ahmad S Brinji  5 , Fawaz H Al Jehani  7 , Wail Almaimani  7 , Rakan A Ekram  8 , Kasim H Alkhatib  9 , Hassan Alwafi  10
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Clinical, radiological and therapeutic characteristics of patients with COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Shabrawishi et al. PLoS One. .

Abstract

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a rapidly spreading global pandemic. The clinical characteristics of COVID-19 have been reported; however, there is limited research investigating the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in the Middle East. This study aims to investigate the clinical, radiological and therapeutic characteristics of patients diagnosed with COVID19 in Saudi Arabia.

Methods: This study is a retrospective single-centre case series study. We extracted data for patients who were admitted to the Al-Noor Specialist Hospital with a PCR confirming SARS-COV-2 between 12th and 31st of March 2020. Descriptive statistics were used to describe patients' characteristics. Continuous data were reported as mean ± SD. Chi-squared test/Fisher test were used as appropriate to compare proportions for categorical variables.

Results: A total of 150 patients were hospitalised for COVID-19 during the study period. The mean age was 46.1 years (SD: 15.3 years). The most common comorbidities were hypertension (28.8%, n = 42) and diabetes mellitus (26.0%, n = 38). Regarding the severity of the hospitalised patients, 105 patients (70.0%) were mild, 29 (19.3%) were moderate, and 16 patients (10.7%) were severe or required ICU care.

Conclusion: This case series provides clinical, radiological and therapeutic characteristics of hospitalised patients with confirmed COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Fig 1. Clinical severity stratified by gender.
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Fig 2. CXR’s of two different patients showing the most common abnormalities: Bilateral, peripheral ground glass opacities and consolidation.
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Fig 3. Recovery rates stratified by case severity.
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