Acute Mesenteric Ischemia in COVID-19 Patients


Authors: Dragos Serban 1,2,*† , Laura Carina Tribus 3,4,†, Geta Vancea 1,5,† , Anca Pantea Stoian, Ana Maria Dascalu 1,* Andra Iulia Suceveanu 6Ciprian Tanasescu 7,8, Andreea Cristina Costea 9…[...]

Review of Mesenteric Ischemia in COVID-19 Patients


Authors: Amit Gupta, Oshin Sharma, Kandhala Srikanth, Rahul Mishra, Amoli Tandon & Deepak Rajput  Indian Journal of Surgery (2022) Published: 11 March 2022 Abstract The new coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019 has become…[...]

Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19


Authors: Ben Hu, Hua Guo, Peng Zhou & Zheng-Li Shi  Nature Reviews Microbiology volume 19, pages141–154 (2021) Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible and pathogenic coronavirus that emerged in late 2019…[...]

C-Reactive Protein Level May Predict the Risk of COVID-19 Aggravation


Authors: Guyi Wang 1, Chenfang Wu 1, Quan Zhang 2, Fang Wu 3, Bo Yu 1, Jianlei Lv 2, Yiming Li 4, Tiao Li 5, Siye Zhang 1, Chao Wu 6 7 8, Guobao Wu 1, Yanjun Zhong 1Affiliations expand Abstract Background: Clinical findings indicated that a fraction of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients diagnosed as mild…[...]

Elevated level of C‐reactive protein may be an early marker to predict risk for severity of COVID‐19


Authors: Nurshad Ali 1 The outbreak of coronavirus disease‐2019 (COVID‐19) is an emerging global health threat. The healthcare workers are facing challenges in reducing the severity and mortality of COVID‐19 across…[...]

The role of C-reactive protein as a prognostic marker in COVID-19


Authors: Dominic Stringer,1Philip Braude,2Phyo K Myint,3Louis Evans,4Jemima T Collins,5Alessia Verduri,6Terry J Quinn,7Arturo Vilches-Moraga,8Michael J Stechman,9Lyndsay Pearce,10Susan Moug,11Kathryn McCarthy,12Jonathan Hewitt,13 and Ben Carter1 Abstract Background C-reactive protein (CRP) is a non-specific acute phase…[...]

Can we predict the severe course of COVID-19 – a systematic review and meta-analysis of indicators of clinical outcome?


Authors: Stephan Katzenschlager ,Alexandra J. Zimmer ,Claudius Gottschalk, Jürgen Grafeneder,Stephani Schmitz, Sara Kraker, Marlene Ganslmeier, Amelie Muth, Alexander Seitel, Lena Maier-Hein, Andrea Benedetti, Jan Larmann, Markus A. Weigand, Sean McGrath , Claudia M.…[...]