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An Introduction to the Clinical and Diagnostic Features, and CoViD19 Complications

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The clinical and diagnostic features of the CoViD19 are well described in several study reports worldwide. The disease may present in an asymptomatic form or as a severe disease and may result in a fatal outcome. The impact of the SARS CoV2 stress may elicit complex immunopathological body responses involving a range of the hematological and biochemical manifestations, clinical symptomatology, and radiological abnormalities of varying severities important to diagnose the CoViD19 and determine the severity. This chapter describes the key clinical and diagnostic features of CoViD19 as presented in the emerging literature, along with the associated evidence base, and provides an overview of the main complications associated with the disease. We highlight the blood abnormalities commonly associated with the infection that may help clinicians understand the novel coronavirus disease. We further present the radiological abnormalities associated with CoVid19 that may characterize and reflect different severities of the disease, as highlighted in the research studies, and that also form the evidence base of the novel coronavirus disease clinical and diagnostic features.

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Mallick, U. (2022). An Introduction to the Clinical and Diagnostic Features, and CoViD19 Complications. In: Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90065-6_3

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