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Volume 10, Number 3—March 2004
Dispatch

Patient Data, Early SARS Epidemic, Taiwan

Po-Ren Hsueh*, Pei-Jer Chen*, Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao*, Shiou-Huei Yeh†, Wen-Chen Cheng*, Jiun-Ling Wang*, Bor-Luen Chiang*, Shan-Chwen Chang*, Feng-Yee Chang‡, Wing-Wai Wong§, Chuan-Liang Kao*1, Pan-Chyr Yang*1Comments to Author , and the SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital
Author affiliations: *National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; †National Health Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan; ‡Tri-service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; and; §Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taiwan

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Table

Clinical features and laboratory findings of 10 patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome in Taiwan

Clinical and laboratory findings No. (%) of patients (N = 10)
Clinical features

Fever (>38°C)
10 (100)
Dry cough
10 (100)
Loose stool or diarrhea
8 (80)
Myalgia
7 (70)
Malaise
7 (70)
Chills and rigor
6 (60)
Headache
4 (40)
Sore throat
1 (10)
Dyspnea
1 (10)
Abdominal pain
1 (10)
Rhinorrhea
0
Laboratory findings

Leukopenia (<4 x 109/L)
4 (40)
Leukocytosis (>10 x 109/L)
1 (10)
Anemia (hemoglobin <12 g/dL)
1 (10)
Lymphocytopenia (<1.5 x 109/L)
9 (90)
Thrombocytopenia (<130 x 109/L)
5 (50)
Elevated aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (>32 IU/L)
7 (70)
Elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (>40 IU/L)
6 (60)
Elevated lactate dehydrogenase
(>460 (IU/L)
7 (78)a
Elevated creatinine phosphokinase (>160 IU/L)
5 (71)b
Hyponatremia (<134 mmol/L)
5 (50)
Creatinine (>106 mmol/L)
0 ( 0)
C-reactive protein (>8 mg/L)

Ferritin (M >377 μg/L; F>151 μg/L)
7 (100)b
Oxygen saturation (<95%) 2 (20)


aData were available for nine patients; M, male; F, female.
bData were available for seven patients.

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1Pan-Chyr Yang and Chuan-Liang Kao contributed equally to this article.

2The SARS Research Group of National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital includes the following members: Ding-Shinn Chen, Yuan-Teh Lee, Che-Ming Teng, Pan-Chyr Yang, Hong-Nerng Ho, Pei-Jer Chen, Ming-Fu Chang, Jin-Town Wang, Shan-Chwen Chang, Chuan-Liang Kao, Wei-Kung Wang, Cheng-Hsiang Hsiao, and Po-Ren Hsueh.

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