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Clinical, laboratory and imaging features of COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales; Jaime A. Cardona-Ospina; Estefanía Gutiérrez-Ocampo; Rhuvi Villamizar-Peña; Yeimer Holguin-Rivera; Juan Pablo Escalera-Antezana; Lucia Elena Alvarado-Arnez; D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana; Carlos Franco-Paredes; Andrés F. Henao-Martinez; Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi; Guillermo J. Lagos-Grisales; Eduardo Ramírez-Vallejo; Jose A. Suárez; Lysien I. Zambrano; Wilmer E. Villamil-Gómez; Graciela J. Balbin-Ramon; Ali A. Rabaan; Harapan Harapan; Kuldeep Dhama; Hiroshi Nishiura; Hiromitsu Kataoka; Tauseef Ahmad; Ranjit Sah is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

## Introduction: An epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) began in december 2019 in china leading to a public health emergency of international concern (pheic). clinical, laboratory, and imaging features have been partially characterized in some observational studies. no systematic reviews on covid-19 have been published to date. ## Methods: We performed a systematic literature review with meta-analysis, using three databases to assess clinical, laboratory, imaging features, and outcomes of covid-19 confirmed cases. observational studies and also case reports, were included, and analyzed separately. we performed a random-effects model meta-analysis to calculate pooled prevalences and 95% confidence intervals (95%ci). ## Results: 660 articles were retrieved for the time frame (1/1/2020-2/23/2020). after screening, 27 articles were selected for full-text assessment, 19 being finally included for qualitative and quantitative analyses. additionally, 39 case report articles were included and analyzed separately. for 656 patients, fever (88.7%, 95%ci 84.5-92.9%), cough (57.6%, 95%ci 40.8-74.4%) and dyspnea (45.6%, 95%ci 10.9-80.4%) were the most prevalent manifestations. among

Author

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales; Jaime A. Cardona-Ospina; Estefanía Gutiérrez-Ocampo; Rhuvi Villamizar-Peña; Yeimer Holguin-Rivera; Juan Pablo Escalera-Antezana; Lucia Elena Alvarado-Arnez; D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana; Carlos Franco-Paredes; Andrés F. Henao-Martinez; Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi; Guillermo J. Lagos-Grisales; Eduardo Ramírez-Vallejo; Jose A. Suárez; Lysien I. Zambrano; Wilmer E. Villamil-Gómez; Graciela J. Balbin-Ramon; Ali A. Rabaan; Harapan Harapan; Kuldeep Dhama; Hiroshi Nishiura; Hiromitsu Kataoka; Tauseef Ahmad; Ranjit Sah

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1477-8939)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)