Bibliometric analysis on the involvement and frequency of COVID-19 in the human organic system.

• Main Author: de Castro Dellamura, Vinicius
• Publication Date: 2023
• Other Authors: Batigalia, Fernando, Maria Pires Sciarra, Adilia
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Brazilian Journal of Implantology and Health Sciences
• Download full: https://bjihs.emnuvens.com.br/bjihs/article/view/473
• topic: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Acometimento; Frequência; Sistema Orgânico Humano; Bibliometria

INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 is a zoonotic virus disease that has had its origin in Wuhan in December 2019. Its early symptom was the occurrence of harsh abrupt cases of pneumonia. Nevertheless, the SARS-CoV-2 infection results also in a wide variety of extra pulmonary pathological manifestations, causing repercussions on the most variables biological systems. OBJECTIVES: Considering the disease’s influence and increased international dissemination, which implicates both human and socioeconomic damages linked to its expressive clinical and systematic reach; this study aims at developing a bibliometric analysis that measures the systems of the human body affected by the disease through searching of the most cited articles on the literature. MATERIAL AND METHOD: It was compiled, through Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection’s database, the most cited articles in English that described the consequences of the disease on the human body systems, both general and specifically, according to selected keywords in English. Then, it was investigated the terms linked to each system in association with its respective organs through a bibliometric analysis, except the ones that were not correlated to the COVID-19. Lastly, graphics were elaborated to provide, quantitively, the occurrence of disease implications in each system affected. RESULTS: A systematic quantitative relation made by the bibliometric technique was developed from the survey of these terms, which resulted,  in addition to the most cited system and disposed in descending order: the respiratory (24,20%), cardiovascular (22,92%), nervous/sensory (15,53%), urinary (11,29%) digestive (10,52%), lymphatic/immune (8,13%), locomotor (2,89%), endocrine (2,38%), integumentary (1,62%) and, the reproductive system (0,47%). CONCLUSION:  Among the systems that constitute the human organic system, its degree of involvement by COVID-19, in descending order, corresponds to the respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous/sensory, urinary, digestive, lymphatic/imune, locomotor, endocrine, integumentary and reproductive systems. Each one of these systems has its peculiarities related to the pathophysiology and symptomatology of the COVID-19 infection, which, thus, presentes itself as a multisystemic disease that affects, distinctively, each one of the human body systems.