Endocrine Abstracts

Low vitamin D levels were consistently reported as a risk factor for worse outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Emerging evidences suggest that in 50–70% of COVID-19 survivors several post-COVID symptoms can be observed up to 3 months after acute-disease, representing a novel clinical condition defined Long-COVID syndrome. To date, the predisposing factors for this syndrome are still poorly understood. We retrospectively aimed at evaluating the influence of 25(OH) ...

SARS-CoV-2 has rapidly spread from China throughout the world leading to a pandemic. COVID-19 can be severe enough to cause hospitalization and death. Many patients with endocrine disorders share many of the recognized risk factors for severe disease and have potential additional risks due to corticosteroid replacement therapy or alteration in blood electrolytes. We here report three cases of COVID-19 in patients with post-surgical hypopituitarism and documented hypocortisolem...

Morphometric-Vertebral Fractures (VFs), which were widely demonstrated to reduce overall-survival and respiratory function in the general population, have been recently reported to be highly prevalent in COVID-19 patients. Emerging data show negative respiratory sequelae at long-term follow-up in COVID-19 survivors. The aim of this study is to evaluate the VFs influence on respiratory function of COVID-19 survivors. We included COVID-19 patients admitted at San Raffaele-Hospit...

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...