Clinical and Laboratory Follow-up After Hospitalization for COVID-19 at an Italian Tertiary Care Center
Michele Spinicci, Iacopo Vellere, Lucia Graziani, Marta Tilli, Beatrice Borchi, Jessica Mencarini, Irene Campolmi, Leonardo Gori, Laura Rasero, Francesco Fattirolli, Iacopo Olivotto, Federico Lavorini, Niccolò Marchionni, Lorenzo Zammarchi, Alessandro Bartoloni, Careggi Post-acute COVID-19 Study Group, Carlo Fumagalli, Maria Vittoria Silverii, Luca Ciani, Chiara Zocchi, Luigi Tassetti, Rossella Marcucci, Betti Giusti, Luca Livi, Lorenzo Giovannoni, Paola Parronchi, Fabio Almerigogna, Francesco Annunziato, Alessio Mazzoni, Laura Maggi, Francesco Liotta, Lorenzo Cosmi, Alessandra Vultaggio, Andrea Matucci, Silvia Sticci, Martina Donati, Cecilia Defraia, Fabrizio Giansanti, Daniela Bacherini
Abstract
We evaluated 100 postacute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients a median (interquartile range) of 60 (48-67) days after discharge from the Careggi University Hospital, Italy. Eighty-four (84%) had at least 1 persistent symptom, irrespective of COVID-19 severity. A considerable number of hospital readmissions (10%) and/or infectious diseases (14%) during the postdischarge period were reported.