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ea0070oc6.7 | Hot Topics (including COVID-19 | ECE2020

Hypocalcemia is highly prevalent and predicts hospitalization in patients with COVID-19

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...