Abstract
This study aims to evaluate the COVID-19 pandemic consultations
requested from the division of hematology in the hospital. We recorded
the following features of the patients: demographic information, the
status of outpatient or inpatient, the clinic requested consultation,
the result of the consultation, having a hematological disease,
diagnosis and COVID-19 suspicion. In this study, 82 cases were
evaluated. The median age of the patients was 49,5. Females were mild
higher (56,1% vs. 43,9%). Eight of the patients was suspected with
COVID-19. The frequency of suspicion in patients with the previously
diagnosed hematological disorder was higher significantly than patients
without previously diagnosed (42,9% vs. 6,7% p=0,018). The frequency
of suspicion was higher significantly inpatients than outpatients
(19,4% vs. 2,2%, p=0,019). Only two of the patients who was suspected
with COVID-19 were PCR-positive and these patients were diagnosed with
concomitant hematologic malignancy; CLL and MCL. The most common clinic
and cause of this consultation of this clinic were gynecology and
thrombocytopenia, respectively, and most of the patients were diagnosed
with pseudothrombocytopenia. After the consultation for all patients,
the diagnosis was drug-related cytopenia; however, detailed evaluation
for cytopenia was delayed to period which after the pandemic because any
patients had no deep levels of cytopenia. Although our study has some
limitations, this study is remarkable because this is the first study
that has investigated hematology consultation during the pandemic. We
think that more significant results will be achieved as new data become
available, as long as the pandemic continues.