COVID-19 is a pandemic viral pneumonia caused by β -coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. It associated with many complications including extreme systemic inflammatory response which eventually causes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), hypercoagulability, cytokine storm, failure of vital organs, and high incidence death. Bacterial secondary infection possibly involved, in such cases, the role a...

differentiating sepsis from other noninfectious causes of systemic inflammation is often difficult in the elderly. the aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of c-reactive protein (crp), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (esr), procalcitonin (pct), and interleukin-6 (il-6) to identify elderly patients with sepsis. in this single center prospective observational study, we included all consec...