Background and Aim: Viral pneumonia is the most relevant clinical presentation of COVID-19 which may lead to severe acute respiratory syndrome and even death.Eosinopenia was often noticed in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, but its role is poorly investigated. The aim of the present study was to investigate the characteristics and clinical outcomes of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and eosinopenia. Methods:We revised the records of consecutive patients with COVID-19 pneumonia admitted to our ER-COVID-19 area in order to compare clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with and without eosinopenia. We considered the following clinical outcomes: 4-weeks survival; need for intensive respiratory support; and hospital discharge.Results: Out of first 107 consecutive patients with pneumonia and a positive COVID-19 nasopharyngeal swab, 75 patients showed undetectable eosinophil count (absolute eosinopenia). At 4 weeks, 38 patients (38.4%) had required intensive respiratory treatment, 25 (23.4%) deceased and 42 (39.2%) were discharged. Compared with patients without absolute eosinopenia, patients with absolute eosinopenia showed higher need of intensive respiratory treatment (49.3% vs 13.3%, P < .001), higher mortality (30.6% vs 6.2%, P .006) and lower rate of hospital discharge (28% vs 65.6%, P < .001). Binary logistic regression analyses including neutrophil, lymphocyte, eosinophil, basophil and monocyte counts showed that absolute eosinopenia was an independent factor associated with 4-weeks mortality, need for intensive respiratory support and hospital discharge.Conclusions: Absolute eosinopenia is associated with clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and might be used as a marker to discriminate patients with unfavourable prognosis. How to cite this article: Cazzaniga M, Fumagalli LAM, D'angelo L, et al. Eosinopenia is a reliable marker of severe disease and unfavourable outcome in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprising deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a common complication in patients with cancer, who have an estimated 12-to 23-fold increased risk to develop VTE compared to individuals without cancer. 1 Cancer-associated venous thromboembolism (CAT) is expected to become more frequent due to improved cancer survival, which ultimately results in a larger and older cancer population that is longer exposed to CAT-associated risk factors such as use of chemotherapy and immunotherapy. 2 Besides the substantial morbidity and mortality, CAT may also lead to delayed access to or withdrawal of cancer treatments, prolonged or repeated hospitalizations, thwarting optimal cancer management,

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Aims: To assess survival predictivity of baseline blood cell differential count (BCDC) discretization methods in acutely ill adults visiting the emergency room over one-year. Methods: Retrospective cohort study on one-year survival of adults reporting to the emergency room of the A. Manzoni Hospital (Italy) during 2020. Automated BCDC analysis performed at baseline, assessed hemoglobin, red cell mean volume and distribution width (RDW), platelet distribution width (PDW), platelet-hematocrit, absolute red blood cells, white blood cells, neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils, and platelets. Discretization cutoffs were defined by: Benchmark laboratory reference values and Tailored (maximally selected rank statistics for linear and sigmoid-shaped distributed variables; optimal-equal hazard ratio (HR) method for U-shaped distributed variables. Explanatory variables (age, gender, inward admission) were analyzed using Cox multivariable regression. Receiver operating characteristic curves used the sum of Cox-significant variables in each method. Results: Of 11052 patients (median age 67 years, interquartile range (IQR) 51-81, 48% female), 59% (n=6489) were discharged and 41% (n=4563) were admitted. After a 306-day median follow up (IQR 208-417 days), 9455 (86%) patients were alive and 1597 (14%) deceased. Increased HRs were associated with age > 73 years (HR=4.29 CI 3.78-4.87), and hospital admission (HR=2.05, CI 1.83-2.29). Age, sex, hemoglobin, mean corpuscular volume, RDW, PDW, neutrophils, lymphocytes and eosinophils were significant in overall. Benchmark included basophils and platelet count (area under the ROC curve (AUROC) 0.78). Tailored included monocyte counts and PCT (AUROC of 0.82). Conclusions: Tailored discretization of BCDC provided meaningful insight regarding acute patient survival.