OBSERVATIONAL STUDY ON CLINICAL FEATURES, TREATMENT AND OUTCOME OF COVID 19 IN A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE IN INDIA -A RETROSPECTIVE CASE SERIES
Dr Raja Bhattacharya, Dr Indranil Ray, Dr Rishav Mukherjee, Dr Sampurna Chowdhury, Dr Manish Kulasreshtha
INTRODUCTION Since December 2019, the new severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which started as an outbreak in Wuhan, China has spread rapidly as a pandemic around the world, causing (1) multi organ dysfunction most prominent of which are coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), cardiac injury, liver and renal injury, thrombosis including Pulmonary Embolism and Stroke, and death (2) Although the exact pathophysiology behind COVID19 infection is still unknown, it is primarily known to affect the Respiratory System although other systems including Neurological manifestation are recently coming to light. Structural and functional analysis showed (3) that the spike for SARS-CoV-2 also bound to ACE2 whose (4)(5)(6)
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