by Northwestern University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Secondary bacterial infection of the lung (pneumonia) was extremely common in patients with COVID-19, affecting almost half the patients who required support from mechanical ventilation. By applying machine learning to medical record data, scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine found that secondary bacterial pneumonia that does not...
by Radiological Society of North America Credit: CC0 Public Domain COVID-19 infection is associated with increased liver stiffness, a sign of possible long-term liver injury, according to the results of a new study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). “Our study is part of emerging evidence...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers — led by the University of Minnesota Medical School and School of Public Health — have found that metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes medication, lowers the odds of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, or death due to COVID-19 by over 40 percent; and...
by Lancet Creative rendition of SARS-CoV-2 particles (not to scale). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH One in eight adults (12.7%) who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience long term symptoms due to COVID-19, suggests a large Dutch study published in The Lancet. The study provides one of the first comparisons of long-term symptoms...
Asian, Black, and Hispanic patients with COVID-19 have persistent overestimation of arterial oxygen saturation, according to a study published online May 31 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Ashraf Fawzy, M.D., M.P.H., from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study of clinical data for COVID-19 patients who self-identified as...
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Boston)— Overwhelming evidence shows that infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) causes dysfunction of multiple organ systems, including the nervous system. Neurologic symptoms are frequently reported even in patients with mild illness and for some, these neurologic symptoms may persist as part of long-haul COVID. To describe the prevalence,...
by European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research being presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (23-26 April) has identified a panel of cytokines that can help predict which COVID-19 patients are at risk of serious illness and death....
by Michael Morrison, Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many COVID-19 patients newly diagnosed with diabetes during hospital admission may in fact have a temporary form of the disease related to the acute stress of the viral infection and may return to normal blood sugar levels soon after discharge, a study by Massachusetts General...
Researchers found that convalescent plasma reduced the need for hospitalization by half for outpatients who participated in the study. Convalescent plasma is plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 and whose blood contains antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. CONVALESCENT PLASMA IS THE ONLY ANTIBODY THERAPY THAT “KEEPS UP WITH SARS-COV-2 VARIANTS,”...
by Homa Shalchi, Baylor College of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have investigated the effect of infection with COVID-19 on the levels of oxidative stress, oxidant damage, and glutathione, the most abundant physiological antioxidant. Compared to healthy age-matched individuals whose samples were taken before the pandemic started in 2019,...
