Successful Treatment of Post-coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Autoimmune Encephalitis With Plasmapheresis After a Failed Trial of Steroids

Tony Kamel • William Toppen • Yasaman Salahmand DOI: 10.7759/cureus.85150  Abstract In December 2021, a 58-year-old unvaccinated woman with a past medical history of obesity presented to an outside hospital with severe coronavirus disease 2019…[...]

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Long-Term Interplay Between SARS-CoV-2 and Renal Impairment

Ileana Adela Vacaroiu • Larisa Florina Șerban-Feier • Dragos Eugen Georgescu • et. al. DOI: 10.7759/cureus.66553  Abstract Introduction The SARS-CoV-2 virus causes the highly contagious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which most commonly manifests as severe acute respiratory…[...]

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Interwoven challenges of covid-19, poor diet, and cardiometabolic health

BMJ 2023; 383 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-076810 (Published 09 October 2023)Cite this as: BMJ 2023;383:e076810Read the full collection: Food for Thought 2023 Carmen Piernas, senior research fellow,  Jordi Merino, associate professor ,Correspondence to: C Piernas Carmen Piernas and Jordi Merino argue that…[...]

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Overweight/obesity as the potentially most important lifestyle factor associated with signs of pneumonia in COVID-19

Authors: Vanessa Sacco ,Barbara Rauch ,Christina Gar,Stefanie Haschka,Anne L. Potzel,Stefanie Kern-Matschilles,Friederike Banning,Irina Benz,Mandy Meisel,Jochen Seissler,Andreas Lechner  Published: November 18, 2020 Abstract Objective The occurrence of pneumonia separates severe cases of COVID-19 from…[...]

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Endothelial dysfunction in COVID-19: Current findings and therapeutic implications

Authors: Matthias P Nägele 1, Bernhard Haubner 1, Felix C Tanner 1, Frank Ruschitzka 1, Andreas J Flammer 2 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) increases the risk of several non-pulmonary complications such as acute myocardial injury, renal failure or thromboembolic…[...]

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