Oral infections, SARS-CoV-2 infection, and autoimmunity

SJ Janket, F Tamimi, JH Meurman - Infection and autoimmunity, 2024 - Elsevier
A new strain of virus, SARS-CoV-2, caused the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19)
and became the greatest global health challenge. Even though most patients (over 80% of …

Clinical outcomes of immunomodulatory therapies in the management of COVID-19: A tertiary-care experience from Pakistan

N Nasir, S Tajuddin, S Khaskheli, N Khan… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The pharmacological management of COVID-19 has evolved significantly and various
immunomodulatory agents have been repurposed. However, the clinical efficacy has been …

Serum Total Antioxidant Capacity (TAC) and TAC/Lymphocyte Ratio as Promising Predictive Markers in COVID-19

Z Horváth-Szalai, R Jakabfi-Csepregi… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection might cause a critical disease, and patients' follow-up is based on
multiple parameters. Oxidative stress is one of the key factors in the pathogenesis of COVID …

Association between inflammatory cytokines/chemokines, clinical laboratory parameters, disease severity and in-hospital mortality in critical and mild COVID-19 …

M Hamza, M Alhujaily, B Alosaimi… - … of Immunoassay and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
There are limited data on inflammatory cytokines and chemokines; the humoral immune
response; and main clinical laboratory parameters as indicators for disease severity and …

Clinical Characteristics and Predictors of Mortality in Elderly Patients Hospitalized with COVID‐19 in Bangladesh: A Multicenter, Retrospective Study

M Asaduzzaman, ZHM Nazmul Alam… - Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose. Elderly patients are at high risk of fatality from COVID‐19. The present work aims to
describe the clinical characteristics of elderly inpatients with COVID‐19 and identify the …

Advanced detection of coronary artery disease via deep learning analysis of plasma cytokine data

M Shoaib, A Junaid, G Husnain, M Qadir… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The 2017 World Health Organization Fact Sheet highlights that coronary artery disease is
the leading cause of death globally, responsible for approximately 30% of all deaths. In this …

Impacts of Inflammatory Cytokines Variants on Systemic Inflammatory Profile and COVID-19 Severity

XJ Deng, K Tang, Z Wang, S He, Z Luo - Journal of Epidemiology and …, 2024 - Springer
Background Cytokine storm is known to impact the prognosis of coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19), since pro-inflammatory cytokine variants are associated with cytokine storm. It …

Phenotypical changes of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in COVID-19 patients: Correlation with disease status

HAM Hussein, AAA Thabet, TIA Mohamed… - … European Journal of …, 2023 - termedia.pl
Hematopoietic stem cells (HsCs) and hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) play a crucial
role in the context of viral infections and their associated diseases. The link between HsCs …

Factors associated with the worsening of COVID-19 symptoms among cohorts in community-or home-isolation care in southern Thailand

T Sila, W Suriyaamorn, C Toh, S Rajborirug… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction This study aimed to investigate factors associated with time-to-referral due to
worsening symptoms in patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in southern Thailand …

Refractory circulatory failure in COVID-19 patients treated with veno-arterial ECMO a retrospective single-center experience

C Wiest, A Philipp, M Foltan, F Geismann… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Objective In this retrospective case series, survival rates in different indications for veno-
arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) and differential diagnoses of …