Assessing the Impact of Inflammatory Markers and CT Severity Score on Disease Severity of COVID-19 Patients Admitted to ICU at a Tertiary Hospital.

Abstract

The disease severity was significantly correlated with CTSS and D- dimer. Severe COVID-19 was also associated with a high NLR (neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio) and moderately elevated inflammatory markers (CRP, Ferritin, IL-6). CTSS >15 and D-dimer >2.4 correlate strongly with mortality. CTSS has the greatest diagnostic accuracy for stratifying the disease severity and predicting the mortality among the markers/ characteristics compared.