Análise dos resultados de hemograma e de D-dímero de pacientes internados por COVID-19 em um hospital na cidade de Caxias do Sul

Abstract

The present study sought to evaluate the blood count and D-dimer results of patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit with a confirmatory diagnosis for Covid-19 in a hospital in Caxias do Sul, in order to analyze the predominant changes and verify whether the findings in the literature were repeated in this population. An analytical, descriptive and retrospective study was carried out from March 2020 to March 2022. The results found were the predominance of anemia, neutrophilia and lymphocytopenia and, in the context of morphological alterations, polychromatophilia and anisocytosis if absent in the blood count. A small percentage of patients had thrombocytopenia and D-dimer values far above those considered normal were observed in most of the population. However, none of the results found in this study and in the literature regarding Covid-19 are pathognomonic of the disease. The findings are corroborated by other studies and confirm that the patient's prognosis and his evolution to death are directly related to these alterations. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]