Background & aims Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a wide clinical spectrum, ranging from asymptomatic infection to severe diseases with high mortality rate. Early identification of high-risk COVID-19 patients may be beneficial to reduce morbidity and in-hospital mortality. This study aimed to investigate whether baseline levels of inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and immune-cell-based inflammatory indices, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), derived-NLR (d-NLR), and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) at hospital admission are associated with adverse disease outcomes in COVID-19 patients. Methods Clinical data from 391 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in three Siloam Hospitals in Indonesia were retrospectively collected and analysed from March 20 to October 30, 2020. Results Fifty-four (13.8%) hospitalized patients had clinical deterioration and required ICU treatment, categorizing them as severe COVID-19 cases. Older age, presence of underlying diseases, and increased inflammatory markers values at admission were significantly associated with severe cases. After adjustment of sociodemographic and comorbidities factors, CRP, NLR, and d-NLR values, but not PLRs, were identified as independent risk factors for disease severity and death in COVID-19 patients. The area under curve (AUC) of CRP, NLR, and d-NLR were 0.854, 0.848, and 0.854, respectively. The optimal cut-off points for CRP, NLR, and d-NLR for identification of COVID-19 patients with potential worse disease outcomes were 47 mg/L, 6, and 4, respectively. Conclusion Initial assessment of CRP, NLR, and d-NLR values at hospital admission may be important predictors for adverse disease outcomes in COVID-19 patients.

Background All new graduate medical doctors in Indonesia will work in government healthcare facilities for one year as internship doctors. Problems such as the shortage of PPE, no specific treatment guidelines, and inadequate support from authorities, contributed to mental health problems. This study aimed to determine mental health problems and associated demographics and concerns of Indonesian internship doctors in the COVID-19 pandemic era. Methods This cross-sectional study was performed from 1–31 Januari 2021 via Google Form questionnaire to collect data. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify the association between demographic data, concerns in internship doctors' working place, and mental health using Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 21. Results Depression, anxiety, and stress in internship doctors were 32.6, 44.1, and 19.5% consecutively. Multivariate analysis showed that the only demographic factor associated with depression was female sex. Concerns of internship doctors were the most factors associated with mental health. Working in triage was associated with depression and stress. Donning and doffing training of PPE, difficulty to practice physical distancing and hesitancy to attend patients were associated with depression and anxiety. Difficulty to practice physical distancing in hospital w associated with anxiety and stress. Limitation Firstly, some difficulties in data collection. Secondly, the self-reported tools of mental health are not always aligned with the psychiatric assessment. Lastly, possibility of recall biases from each batch. Conclusions To minimize mental health problems of internship doctors, their concerns must be tackled. Medical schools have an important role to manage concerns of these internship doctors.

The multifactorial mechanisms of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) could be caused by HIV, TB or anti-TB drugs. No patients with HIV and opportunistic infection of miliary pulmonary TB who developed thrombocytopenia after treatment with anti-TB drugs have been reported. A 47-year-old woman with HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and miliary TB with normal platelet count (229 000/μL) started anti-TB drugs (rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide and ethambutol). After 10 days of treatment, her platelet count was low (17 000/μL). As rifampicin and isoniazid were stopped and intravenous methylprednisolone was given, her platelet count began to increase. After more than a month, her platelet count was normal (192 000/μL) and she started antiretrovirals. This improved platelet count after high-dose methylprednisolone is suggestive of ITP; however, the dilemma is whether it was rifampicin alone that caused ITP or did HIV and disseminated TB infection also play a role?

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) is an acquired pathological syndrome, featured by a hypercoagulable state, bleeding symptoms, and multiple organ failure. Based by these very distinct features, DIC is classified into four types namely Bleeding type, Organ failure type, Massive bleeding type, and Asymptomatic type. Diagnosing DIC is a challenge to the health practitioner, considering that DIC is a multifactorial syndrome, which always is a complication of some underlying diseases. To diagnose DIC, it is necessary to do a comprehensive evaluation of clinical symptoms and laboratory results. The necessary laboratory results include platelets count, fibrin degradation products (FDPs), fibrinogen, and PT-aPTT.

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