ABSTRACT SARS-CoV-2 has claimed 2,137,908 lives in more than a year. Some COVID-19
patients experience sudden and rapid deterioration with the onset of fatal cytokine storm …

A subset of patients with severe COVID-19 develop profound inflammation and multi-organ
dysfunction consistent with a “Cytokine Storm Syndrome”(CSS). In this review we compare …

Dear Editor, we read with interest the article by McGonagle et al., which has been recently
published on this Journal [1]. This article highlights the role of pro-inflammatory cytokines in …

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed the practice of medicine at a threshold overlooking a
new and different era, 1 and has led to the evolving concept of COVID-19 cytokine storm …

Cytokine storm syndrome (CSS) is a critical clinical condition induced by a cascade of
cytokine activation, characterized by overwhelming systemic inflammation …

A cytokine storm is a hyperinflammatory state secondary to the excessive production of
cytokines by a deregulated immune system. It manifests clinically as an influenza-like …

Severe COVID-19 associated pneumonia patients may exhibit features of systemic hyper-
inflammation designated under the umbrella term of macrophage activation syndrome …

Although interest in “cytokine storms” has surged over the past decade, it was massively
amplified in 2020 when it was suggested that a subset of patients with COVID-19 developed …

Objective To describe the laboratory parameters and biomarkers of the cytokine storm
syndrome associated with severe and fatal COVID-19 cases. Methods A search with …

Objectives To develop predictive criteria for COVID-19-associated cytokine storm (CS), a
severe hyperimmune response that results in organ damage in some patients infected with …