Abstract Purpose This study aimed to analyse COVID-19-related mortality during the pandemic, stratified by groups at risk of severe COVID-19. Methods Patients with COVID-19 between March 2020 and February 2023 were enrolled using the international multicentric Lean European Open Survey on SARS-CoV-2-Infected…
Purpose The objective examination of the Post-COVID syndrome (PCS) remains difficult due to heterogeneous definitions and clinical phenotypes. The aim of the study was to verify the functionality and correlates of a recently developed PCS score. Methods The PCS score was applied to the prospective, multi-center…
Introduction: Active malignancies have been identified as an independent risk factor for severity and mortality in COVID-19. However, direct comparisons between SARS-CoV-2-infected patients with active (acP) and non-active cancers (n-acP) remain scarce. Patients and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed…
Objectives To investigate, whether inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRD) inpatients are at higher risk to develop a severe course of SARS-CoV-2 infections compared to the general population, data from the German COVID-19 registry for IRD patients and data from the Lean European Survey on SARS-CoV-2 (LEOSS)…
Objectives The objective of this study was to identify the pathogen spectrum of community acquired pneumonia in people living with HIV (PLWH), and to compare it with a matched HIV negative group in order to reassess therapeutic strategies for PLWH. Methods Seventy-three (n = 73) PLWH (median CD4 3–6…
Abstract Purpose Identification of patients at risk of complicated or more severe COVID-19 is of pivotal importance, since these patients might require monitoring, antiviral treatment, and hospitalization. In this study, we prospectively evaluated the SACOV-19 score for its ability to predict complicated…