We reported 3 patients with severe COVID-19 treated with pegylated interferon alfa 2a with satisfactory recovery. Based on these observations, randomized studies with interferons should be considered in deteriorating patients infected with COVID-19....
CT plays a key role in the diagnosis and treatment assessment of COVID-19 due to its high sensitivity [2, 4]. The explosive growing number of COVID-19 patients requires the automated AI-based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems that can accurately and objectively detect the disease-...
"That is likely to be a major cause of this. In many ways, many of these pneumonia cases will also be COVID-19. They just have not been diagnosed correctly." The WHO is also working with health authorities to look at and review X-rays to see if these cases are ...
According to Jennifer Haythe, MD, Director of Cardio-Obstetrics at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, "It was hard to determine whether she developed a heart failure syndrome due to COVID, due to her pregnancy, or due to profound cardiogenic shock which she was in." Meanwhile, given that Prim...
Coronavirus 2019-nCoV SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Asymptomatic carrier Acute respiratory disease Wuhan pneumonia Introduction In December 2019, an outbreak of pneumonia due to unknown cause occurred in Wuhan, China and rapidly spread throughout the country within 1 month. The pathogen of this disease was ...
outbreakopportunistic infectionsHIVdiagnosisAs the COVID pandemic continues to spread, hospitals have turned their focus to diagnosing COVID in patients who present with respiratory symptoms, and there is a risk of missing other differential diagnoses. We present two cases of newly diagnosed advanced ...
The study also revealed why the mortality among patients on a ventilator for COVID-19 was lower than patients on a ventilator due to regular pneumonia, the study reports. An intense conflagration in the lungs (regular pneumonia) has a higher risk of death. Those with COVID-19 pneumonia are...
2COVID-19 is a disease which will lead to pneumonia. In the word "pneumonia", "P" is silent, and the stress is on the second syllable.Which of the following is the correct pronunciation of the word "pneumonia"?( )A./njuːməʊˈniə/B./pjuːˈməʊniə/C./nj...
The increase in white blood cells (Table 1) during this period may be due to the effect of methylprednisolone. However, COVID-19 ribonucleic acid test was negative using nasopharyngeal swabs done by Shenzhen Center for Disease Control (Shenzhen CDC). Treatment scheme and viral detection time ...
Pneumonia is the most notorious complication of the COVID-19 pandemic. It can send patients to the emergency room gasping for air, put them on ventilators and leave them in intensive care longer than previous pneumonia types. Worst of all, of the nearly 990,000 deaths from confirmed or presu...