Elevated serum ferritin level effectively discriminates severity illness and liver injury of coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia.
Conclusions: it suggests that ferritin could act as an easy-to-use tool to identify liver injury and severity illness and predict the prognosis of COVID-19 patients. Intensive surveillance is necessary for patients with abnormal ferritin levels.
PMID: 33284041 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Biomarkers - Category: Research Tags: Biomarkers Source Type: research
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