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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3503</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.13611</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Haematological Findings and Pattern Analysis in Patients with COVID-19 Infection&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sahu</surname><given-names>Piyush</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rai</surname><given-names>Anshika</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sahu</surname><given-names>Shilpi</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Raut</surname><given-names>Kishor</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>20</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>36</fpage><lpage>41</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2 and is declared as a global pan demic by the World Health Organization (WHO). Recently, many western and Chinese studies have done, but there is a need for research to evaluate the pattern of the haematological parameters of COVID-19 patients in the Indian population. Objective: The objective is to study the haematological parameters which include haemoglobin, Platelet count, Total leucocyte count, differential count, Neutrophil: Lymphocyte ratio (NLR), Platelet: Lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and Peripheral smear findings and to observe the correlation between various parameters and establish a pattern in Intensive care unit (ICU) and Non-ICU set-up in the Indian scenario. Methods: A retrospective study carried out on 150 COVID-19 patients admitted in June and July 2020 in a tertiary care hospital, Navi Mumbai, India. The haematological parameters of both Non-ICU and ICU patients were studied and compared for statisti cal analysis. Results: We observed lymphopenia, eosinopenia, neutrophilia, leucocytosis and decline of haemoglobin in COVID-19 con firmed cases. These parameters showed significant aggravation in critically-ill ICU patients as compared to the non-ICU group. Increased NLR identified as an important risk factor of severe illness. Although PLR did not show any significant difference. Morphology of leucocytes showed reactive changes. Conclusion: Real-time Polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), the confirmatory diagnostic test of COVID-19 is time-consuming and less accessible. Therefore, for initial diagnosis, severity assessment and ICU requirement, these haematological param eters are valuable.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Coronavirus</kwd><kwd> COVID-19</kwd><kwd> Neutrophil: Lymphocyte ratio</kwd><kwd> Platelet: Lymphocyte ratio</kwd><kwd> Complete blood cell count</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
