Table 1.
Summary of laboratory evaluations and relevant trends during hospitalization
| Measure | Reference | Hospital Day |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4a | 6 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 17 | ||
| Sodium (mmol/l) | 137–145 | 132 | 131 | 129 | 134 | |||||||
| Potassium (mmol/l) | 3.5–5.1 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 4.1 | |||||||
| Chloride (mmol/l) | 98–107 | 86 | 85 | 85 | 84 | |||||||
| Carbon dioxide (mmol/l) | 19–27 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 12 | |||||||
| Blood urea nitrogen (mg/dl) | 7.0–26 | 69 | 96 | 110 | 135 | |||||||
| Creatinine (mg/dl) | 0.7–1.3 | 12.5 | 15 | 16.8 | 19.9 | |||||||
| Glucose (mg/dl) | 75–100 | 100 | 87 | 101 | 42 | |||||||
| Calcium (mg/dl) | 8.8–10.3 | 7.2 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 6.5 | |||||||
| Albumin (g/dl) | 3.9–5.2 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 3.6 |
| Triglycerides (mg/dl) | <149 | 422 | ||||||||||
| Total cholesterol (mg/dl) | <200–239 | 179 | ||||||||||
| Hemoglobin A1c (%) | <5.7 | 7.1 | ||||||||||
| White blood cell count (103 per μl) | 3.12–8.44 | 7.7 | 6.1 | 7.7 | 6.6 | |||||||
| Absolute lymphocyte count (per μl) | 1000–3900 | 1690 | ||||||||||
| Hemoglobin (g/dl) | 12.6–17 | 16.6 | 14.5 | 15.2 | 14.2 | |||||||
| Platelets (103 per μl) | 156–325 | 242 | 282 | 349 | 394 | |||||||
| Urine protein:creatinine ratio (g/g) | <0.15 | 3.021 | 5.805 | |||||||||
| 24-h urine protein excretion (g/24 h) | <0.15 | 10.376 | ||||||||||
| Urine RBC (per hpf) | 0–2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Lactate dehydrogenase (U/l) | 135–255 | 1504 | 1561 | 1258 | 943 | 828 | 972 | |||||
| Creatine kinase (U/l) | 64–499 | 1628 | 1163 | 873 | 547 | 227 | ||||||
| Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (mm/h) | 0–15 | >130 | 119 | |||||||||
| High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (mg/l) | 0–10 | 49.4 | 36.3 | |||||||||
| Ferritin (ng/ml) | 30–400 | 1147 | 500.7 | |||||||||
| Interleukin-6 (pg/ml) | ≤5 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Interleukin 2 receptor (pg/ml) | <1033 | 1530 | ||||||||||
| Sars-CoV-2 RT-PCR | Not detected | Detected | Not detected | Detected | ||||||||
Hpf, high-power field; RBC, red blood cell; RT-PCR, reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction.
Dialysis initiated on hospital day 4.