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Abstract
COVID-19 appeared first in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Corona virus often cause severe pneumonia and also targeted different organs. The severity and mortality of COVID-19 is usually associated with inflammatory cytokine storm. Ferritin is generally a biomarker of iron deficiency but elevated serum ferritin level also exhibits inflammatory diseases. Patients with severe COVID-19 have high serum ferritin level than people with less severe COVID that is why it is related that Hyperferritinemia is more probably present in severe COVID-19.Here we focus on the role of serum ferritin for diagnostic and clinical management of patients withCOVID-19.OBJECTIVE:To determine the association between serum ferritin levels and Covid-19. And to determine correlation of ferritin with severity of Covid-19.METHOD:The cross-sectional study involving 152 patients was conducted at the out-patient department of Benazir Bhutto Hospital Rawalpindi. SPSS 17 was used for statistical analyses.RESULTS:According to my study out of 152 patients, 102 were male and 50 female. 62 patients showed comorbidity with other diseases while 90 patients showed no comorbidity. 80 patients died of disease while 72 patients survived. A minimum age of patient was 17 years and maximum age was about 87 years. The minimum value of Ferritin was 15.00 and maximum value of ferritin was1000.0.CONCLUSION:Covid-19 studies showed that serum ferritin was raised in severely infected patients that is why serum ferritin acts as biomarker of COVID-19 severity in hospitalized patients. Serum ferritin may be considered both the stratifying and prognostic biomarker of COVID-19.
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Copyright © 2023 FARHEEN SHAHID Shahid . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
