Letter to the editor regarding clinical characteristics and factors associated with in-hospital post-surgical mortality in COVID-19 patients at a tertiary care center in Karachi, Pakistan.

July 5, 2026July 5, 2026

In Clinical Literature.

Publication date: Jul 03, 2026

A comment on Wagley et al. ‘s study of post-surgical outcomes in COVID-19 patients in Karachi, highlighting the importance of incorporating COVID-19 severity, timing of surgery, and maternal/fetal outcomes. These considerations can improve perioperative risk assessment and inform resource allocation in low- and middle-income countries.

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Concepts	Keywords
Covid	Betacoronavirus
Fetal	COVID-19
Mortality	COVID-19
Pakistan	Female
Surgery	Hospital Mortality
	Humans
	Pakistan
	Pandemics
	Perioperative care
	Post-operative mortality
	Risk Factors
	SARS-CoV-2
	Tertiary Care Centers

Semantics

Type	Source	Name
disease	MESH	COVID-19
disease	MESH	Infectious Diseases
drug	DRUGBANK	Coenzyme M
pathway	REACTOME	Reproduction
disease	MESH	included
disease	MESH	face
drug	DRUGBANK	Pentaerythritol tetranitrate
disease	MESH	infection
drug	DRUGBANK	Oxygen
disease	MESH	dis
disease	MESH	emergency
disease	MESH	Long COVID
disease	MESH	inflammation
disease	MESH	fever
drug	DRUGBANK	Guanosine
drug	DRUGBANK	Carboxyamidotriazole

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