Table 3.

Patients demonstrated improvement in markers of systemic inflammation at 6 weeks after discharge

Marker	Peak	Discharge	Clinic
CRP (0–4 mg/L)	230.2 ± 162.6	30.9 ± 37.5	6.1 ± 9.79
Ferritin (30–400 μg/L)	1592.4 ± 1274.6	807.6 ± 450.0	179.0 ± 141.8
Fibrinogen (1.7–3.9 g/L)	12.3 ± 1.1	5.4 ± 1.6	4.2 ± 2.6
D-dimer (0.00–0.55 mg/L)	17.2 ± 8.1	10.2 ± 6.7	2.35 ± 3.7
Creatinine (59–104 μmol/L)	150.2 ± 30.3	87.6 ± 89.0	62.5 ± 33.2

	Nadir	Discharge	Clinic
Lymphocyte (1.2–3.5 × 109)	0.7 ± 0.2	1.6 ± 0.5	2.7 ± 1.4

Definition of abbreviation: CRP = C-reactive protein.

Normal values are presented in parentheses for each marker. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation.