ea0070oc6.7 | Hot Topics (including COVID-19 | ECE2020
Di Filippo Luigi
, Formenti Anna Maria
, Rovere-Querini Patrizia
, Michele Carlucci
, Conte Caterina
, Ciceri Fabio
, Zangrillo Alberto
, Doga Mauro
, Giustina Andrea
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), may lead to a severe acute respiratory syndrome requiring hospitalization and assisted ventilation with high lethality. Replication of SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and Ebolavirus is calcium-dependent and hypocalcemia has been frequently reported in all these infections. Despite already many studies reporting on clinical and laboratory presentation of COVID-19 patients, including inflammatory and organ injury biomarkers, only one case report has so fa...