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Clinical significance of indeterminate quantiFERON-TB Gold plus assay results in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with severe hyperinflammatory syndrome
(MDPI, 2021)
Performance of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) assay could be affected by conditions of immune dysregulation. Little is known about the reliability of QTF-Plus in COVID-19 patients. Our aim was ...
Risk categories in COVID-19 based on degrees of inflammation: data on more than 17,000 patients from the spanish SEMI-COVID-19 registry
(MDPI, 2021)
(1) Background: The inflammation or cytokine storm that accompanies COVID-19 marks the prognosis. This study aimed to identify three risk categories based on inflammatory parameters on admission. (2) ...
Resource utilization and outcomes in emergency general surgery during the COVID19 pandemic: an observational cost analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2021)
Background: Over the course of the COVID19 pandemic, global healthcare delivery has declined. Surgery is one of the most resource-intensive area of medicine; loss of surgical care has had untold health ...
Genetic screening for TLR7 variants in young and previously healthy men with severe COVID-19
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2021)
Introduction: Loss-of-function TLR7 variants have been recently reported in a small number of males to underlie strong predisposition to severe COVID-19. We aimed to determine the presence of these rare ...
COVID-19: making the best out of a forced transition to online medical teaching. A mixed methods study
(Springer, 2021)
Introduction the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a decreed confinement in our country from March until the end of term in June 2020. This forced a transition exclusively to distance learning. The aim of ...
Susceptibility to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection among children and adults: a seroprevalence study of family households in the Barcelona metropolitan region, Spain
(Oxford University Press, 2021-06)
Background: Susceptibility of children and adults to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and persistence of antibody response to the virus after infection resolution ...
The health crisis on Instagram: how the media are building their agenda on the visual social network during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations, 2020)
Over the last decade social networks have become important channels for the media to publish information and communicate with their younger audiences, with Instagram recently becoming the most popular ...
How did the COVID-19 lockdown affect children and adolescent's well-being: spanish parents, children, and adolescents respond
(Frontiers Media, 2021)
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown strategies have been widely used to contain SARS-CoV-2 virus spread. Children and adolescents are especially vulnerable to suffering psychological ...
Beneficial effect of corticosteroids in preventing mortality in patients receiving tocilizumab to treat severe COVID-19 illness
(International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020-12)
Objectives: To assess the characteristics and risk factors for mortality in patients with severe coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) treated with tocilizumab (TCZ), alone or in combination with ...
High-dose methylprednisolone pulses for 3 days vs. low-dose dexamethasone for 10 days in severe, non-critical COVID-19: a retrospective propensity score matched analysis
(MDPI, 2021)
Corticosteroids are largely recommended in patients with severe COVID-19. However, evidence to support high-dose methylprednisolone (MP) pulses is not as robust as that demonstrated for low-dose ...