Incorrect Affiliation
In the published article [1], there was an error in the following affiliation: “Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Monaldi Hospital, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80131 Naples, Italy”, it should have been “Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80131 Naples, Italy”.
Error in Table
In the original published article [1], there was a mistake in Table 1. The indexes in the scientific notation are missing. The corrected version appears below.
Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19-like syndrome and typical COVID-19.
Sign/Symptom | COVID-like Patients (n 50) |
Typical COVID-19 (n 50) |
p |
---|---|---|---|
Chills | 41/50 | 39/50 | 0.7 * |
Fever | 42/50 | 36/50 | 0.2 * |
Myalgia | 46/50 | 35/50 | 5.6 × 10−3 ** |
Headache | 38/50 | 31/50 | 0.1 * |
Weakness | 45/50 | 50/50 | 0.02 ** |
Anosmia | 14/50 | 44/50 | 3.6 × 10−10 ** |
Lymphopenia (<1500 mmcube) | 49/50 | 47/50 | 0.4 * |
Increased CRP (>5 mg/dL) | 47/50 | 50/50 | 0.09 * |
Increased d-dimer (>500 µg/dL) | 36/50 | 43/50 | 0.09 * |
sO2 < 93% | 2/50 | 46/50 | 1.4 × 10−21 ** |
Deep or superficial vein thrombosis | 0/50 | 3/50 | 0.09 * |
Major bleeding | 1/50 | 2/50 | 0.7 * |
Thromboprophylaxis with enoxaparin | 19/50 | 50/50 | 2.9 × 10−12 ** |
Ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack | 0/50 | 0/50 | 1 * |
Critical limb ischemia | 0/50 | 0/50 | 1 * |
Pneumonia with ground-glass opacities at chest CT-scan | 36/50 | 50/50 | 4.8 × 10−5 ** |
Symptoms lasting > 14 days | 22/50 | 23/50 | 0.09 * |
IgM/IgG anti-SARS-CoV2 | 50/50 | 50/50 | 1.00 * |
* not statistically significant; ** statistically significant; CRP, C-reactive protein; sO2, oxygen saturation; IgM, immunoglobulin M; IgG, immunoglobulin G; CT, computerized tomography.
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Reference
- 1.Di Micco P., Camporese G., Russo V., Cardillo G., Imbalzano E., Tufano A., Bernardi E., Fontanella A. Clinical Differences between COVID-19 and a COVID-Like Syndrome. J. Clin. Med. 2021;10:2519. doi: 10.3390/jcm10112519. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]