Open AccessPredictive Value of C-reactive Protein, Lactate Dehydrogenase, Ferritin and D-dimer Levels in Diagnosing COVID-19 Patients: a Retrospective Study
Author(s) -
Ahmed N. Kaftan,
Majid Kadhum Hussain,
Abdulhussein A. Algenabi,
Farah H. Naser,
Muslim A Enaya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta informatica medica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.267
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1986-5988
pISSN - 0353-8109
DOI - 10.5455/aim.2021.29.45-50
Subject(s) - medicine , retrospective cohort study , ferritin , lactate dehydrogenase , covid-19 , gastroenterology , cohort , medical record , positive predicative value , predictive value , disease , chemistry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biochemistry , enzyme
Since December 2019. millions of people in the world have been affected with the novel Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and high economic impact has affect many countries especially low socioeconomic one like Iraq due to the high cost and limited availability of RT-PCR for diagnosis of COVID-19, so there should be predictive low cost easily available laboratory tests that can be used before proceeding to the high cost techniques.