Article
COVID-19 infection induces readily detectable morphological and inflammation-related phenotypic changes in peripheral blood monocytes, the severity of which correlate with patient outcome
2020-03-26
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<h4>Background</h4> Excessive monocyte/macrophage activation with the development of a cytokine storm and subsequent acute lung injury, leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a feared consequence of infection with COVID-19. The ability to recognize and potentially intervene early in those patients at greatest risk of developing this complication could be of great clinical utility. <h4>Methods</h...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 05a94c25-a01b-5029-87e1-29ccb5c886e6
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.03.24.20042655
