Study of platelet count in covid-19 positive patients admitted in a tertiary care hospital of South Bihar

Abstract

Aim and objective: The aim of this study was to investigate platelet count in COVID-19 positive patients. Material and methods:This is an institution based retrospective type of cross sectional observational study were done in  Narayan medical college and hospital, jamuhar, Sasaram. 500 covid 19 positive patients were include in this study. Results: The study is conducted in Narayan medical college and hospital, jamuhar, Sasaram for 6 months period including in-hospital patients (average of stay in hospital 9.32 ± 7.56) with covid 19 diagnosed by PCR & non-enhancing chest CT scan, the including patients were 500 with mean age 44.24 ± 16.42 years with 50% male & 50% female the majority with pneumonia but non critical & no one had clinically significant bleeding with the majority did not need RCU. For all patients included in the study (PCR&CT+vecases) the platelets count show statistically significant increment when compare between the admission & discharge. Conclusion: We concluded that the  increase in platelets level is a good indicator for recovery from covid in both PCR & CT + ve patients. The CT +ve patients show more platelets level on admission & on discharge. The increase in platelets level not reflect mortality 6- The age show –ve correlation with admission platelets levels.

Keywords: platelet, coronavirus, thrombocytopenia.