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Andra Iulia Suceveanu
Acute Mesenteric Ischemia in COVID-19 Patients.
Acute mesenteric ischemia is a rare but extremely severe complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The present review aims to document the clinical, laboratory, and imaging findings, management, and outcomes of acute intestinal ischemia in COVID-19 patients. A comprehensive search was performed on PubMed and Web of Science with the terms “COVID-19” and “bowel ischemia” OR “intestinal ischemia” OR “mesenteric ischemia” OR “mesenteric thrombosis”. After duplication removal, a total of 36 articles were included, reporting data on a total of 89 patients, 63 being hospitalized at the moment of onset. Elevated D-dimers, leukocytosis, and C reactive protein (CRP) were present in most reported cases, a…
Death by SARS-CoV 2: a Romanian COVID-19 multi-centre comorbidity study
AbstractEvidence regarding the relation between SARS-CoV-2 mortality and the underlying medical condition is scarce. We conducted an observational, retrospective study based on Romanian official data about location, age, gender and comorbidities for COVID-19 fatalities. Our findings indicate that males, hypertension, diabetes, obesity and chronic kidney disease were most frequent in the COVID-19 fatalities, that the burden of disease was low, and that the prognosis for 1-year survival probability was high in the sample. Evidence shows that age-dependent pairs of comorbidities could be a negative prognosis factor for the severity of disease for the SARS-CoV 2 infection.
The Role of Endothelium in COVID-19
The 2019 novel coronavirus, known as severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is causing a global pandemic. The virus primarily affects the upper and lower respiratory tracts and raises the risk of a variety of non-pulmonary consequences, the most severe and possibly fatal of which are cardiovascular problems. Data show that almost one-third of the patients with a moderate or severe form of COVID-19 had preexisting cardiovascular comorbidities such as diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension, heart failure, or coronary artery disease. SARS-CoV2 causes hyper inflammation, hypoxia, apoptosis, and a renin–angiotensin system imbalance …
Data on the age, sex, comorbidities, and location of the COVID-19 fatalities in Romania
This dataset consists of 2 .xlsx spreadsheet and 1 .Rmd R markdown file. These data underlie the related manuscript: "Death by SARS-CoV 2 - a Romanian COVID-19 multi-centre comorbidity study".The related study investigated the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 mortality and underlying medical conditions via an observational, retrospective study based on Romanian official data about location, age, sex and comorbidities for COVID-19 fatalities.The data files are as follows:- Pantea Stoian et al Death by SARS-CoV 2 -PneumoniaCOVID19_data.xlsx: This spreadsheet contains all the data on COVID-19 comorbidities gathered in the related study. The data are de-identified to protect patient privacy.- De…