COVID-19 Infection Triggers Profibrotic Macrophage Responses and Lung Fibrosis

COVID-19 Infection Triggers Profibrotic Macrophage Responses and Lung Fibrosis

COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is associated with prolonged respiratory failure and high mortality, but the mechanistic basis of lung injury remains incompletely understood. Here, we analyzed... read more

Prevalence of Hepatopancreatic Injury in Patients with COVID-19

Prevalence of Hepatopancreatic Injury in Patients with COVID-19

COVID-19 can cause liver injury. Mortality, disease severity, and hospital length of stay are increased in COVID-19 patients with hepatopancreatic injury. Forty-five thousand three hundred sixty patients were included... read more

MR-proADM Role in the Stratification Risk of COVID-19 Patients Assessed at the Triage of the Emergency Department

MR-proADM Role in the Stratification Risk of COVID-19 Patients Assessed at the Triage of the Emergency Department

During the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the Emergency Departments have been overrun with suspicious COVID-19 patients, creating a pressing need to optimize resources through risk... read more

COVID-19 and Myocardial Infarction

COVID-19 and Myocardial Infarction

COVID-19 is a risk factor for myocardial infarction and stroke through self-controlled case series evaluation, a method that has been used to establish the risk of myocardial infarction associated with influenza infection. Regarding... read more

Oxygenation Responses Mechanisms to Proning and Recruitment in COVID-19 Pneumonia

Oxygenation Responses Mechanisms to Proning and Recruitment in COVID-19 Pneumonia

In unresolving COVID-19 pneumonia, the respiratory mechanics and the gas-exchange response to prone positioning and recruitment largely depend on the following two factors: perfusion dysregulation and the amount of consolidated... read more

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapeutics

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapeutics

This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection, their biology and associated challenges for their treatment and prevention of novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Discussing... read more

WHO Issues Guidelines on the Treatment of Children with MIS Associated with COVID-19

WHO Issues Guidelines on the Treatment of Children with MIS Associated with COVID-19

WHO issued updated guidelines on the management of multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) in children associated with COVID-19 (MIS-C). MIS-C is a rare but serious condition where children with COVID-19 develop inflammation... read more

No Extra Risk For Transferring ECMO COVID-19 Patients

No Extra Risk For Transferring ECMO COVID-19 Patients

Previous experience has shown that transporting patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a safe and effective mode of transferring critically ill patients requiring maximum mechanical ventilator support to... read more

Post COVID-19 and Patients with and without Pre-existing ILD

Post COVID-19 and Patients with and without Pre-existing ILD

A lot remains to be learned about the long-term effects of patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) who survive COVID-19 infections. Clinicians need to better understand and recognize the effects of post-COVID 19 lung... read more

High Flow Nasal Oxygen: A Rising Star Waiting To Be Discovered

High Flow Nasal Oxygen: A Rising Star Waiting To Be Discovered

High flow nasal oxygen therapy (HFNO2) is gaining popularity of late and rapidly recognised as new oxygen therapy in the treatment of respiratory failure, and the fame exploded exponentially after the COVID-19 pandemic. HFNO2... read more

Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 in Children

Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 in Children

Results identify children at potentially higher risk of severe disease who may benefit from COVID-19 prevention efforts, including vaccination. Rates of severe COVID-19 establish a baseline for monitoring changes in pediatric... read more

Mortality and Clinical Characteristics of MIS-C Associated with COVID-19

Mortality and Clinical Characteristics of MIS-C Associated with COVID-19

The clinical presentation and severity of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children associated with COVID-19 (MIS-C) is widespread and presents a very low mortality rate in high-income countries. This research describes... read more

Effectiveness of Therapeutic Heparin vs. Prophylactic Heparin on COVID-19 Patients

Effectiveness of Therapeutic Heparin vs. Prophylactic Heparin on COVID-19 Patients

In moderately ill patients with covid-19 and increased D-dimer levels admitted to hospital wards, therapeutic heparin was not significantly associated with a reduction in the primary outcome but the odds of death at 28 days... read more

Anti-interleukin Drugs Effect on COVID-19 Patients

Anti-interleukin Drugs Effect on COVID-19 Patients

Drugs targeting IL-1 or IL-6 did not shorten the time to clinical improvement in this sample of patients with COVID-19, hypoxic respiratory failure, low SOFA score, and low baseline mortality risk. Between April 4, and... read more