Low-dose whole lung irradiation for treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

K Kolahdouzan, M Chavoshi, R Bayani… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Studies dating back to a century ago have reported using low-dose radiation
therapy for the treatment of viral and bacterial pneumonia. In the modern era, since the …

Additional evidence for commonalities between COVID-19 and radiation injury: Novel insight into COVID-19 candidate drugs

F Geng, J Chen, S Tang, EI Azzam… - Radiation …, 2022 - meridian.allenpress.com
COVID-19 is a challenge to biosecurity and public health. The speed of vaccine
development lags behind that of virus evolution and mutation. To date, no agent has been …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia with low-dose radiotherapy plus standard of care versus standard of care alone in frail patients: The SEOR-GICOR …

M Arenas, B Piqué, L Torres-Royo, JC Acosta… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose To assess the efficacy of lung low-dose radiotherapy (LD-RT) in the treatment of
patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Materials and methods Ambispective study with two …

Low-dose radiotherapy for COVID-19 pneumonia and cancer: summary of a recent symposium and future perspectives

MP Little, W Zhang, R van Dusen… - … Journal of Radiation …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The lessons learned from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are
numerous. Low dose radiotherapy (LDRT) was used in the pre-antibiotic era as treatment for …

Efficacy of low-dose lung radiotherapy in the management of COVID-19 patients: a randomised, open-label study

K Dinakar, MK Jakka, PKR Vemannagari… - The British Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Objective Evaluate role of low-dose radiotherapy (LDRT) in COVID-19 pneumonia. Methods
Sixty-five patients 40 years or older tested positive for COVID-19 reverse transcriptase …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 Serum Viral Load and Prognostic Markers Proposal for COVID-19 Pneumonia in Low-Dose Radiation Therapy Treated Patients

B Piqué, K Peña, F Riu, JC Acosta… - Journal of clinical …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Several studies have shown that the plasma RNA of SARS-CoV-2 seems to be associated
with a worse prognosis of COVID-19. In the present study, we investigated plasma RNA in …

Radiotherapy for non-cancer diseases: benefits and long-term risks

J Thariat, MP Little, LB Zablotska… - … Journal of Radiation …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose The discovery of X-rays was followed by a variety of attempts to treat infectious
diseases and various other non-cancer diseases with ionizing radiation, in addition to …

Low-dose radiotherapy to the lungs using an interventional radiology C-arm fluoroscope: Monte Carlo treatment planning and dose measurements in a postmortem …

S Leon, O Paucar, N Correa, M Glassell… - Biomedical Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. The goal of this study was to use Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and
measurements to investigate the dosimetric suitability of an interventional radiology (IR) c …

Evaluation of the development of secondary tumor risks using radiotherapy treatment in patients with COVID-19

RRS Weber - 2023 - teses.usp.br
SARS-CoV-2, most well-known as COVID-19, is an enveloped and single-stranded RNA
virus larger than any RNA virus. Because it is highly contagious, there is no effective specific …

Letter regarding “The clinical efficacy of low-dose whole-lung irradiation in moderate-to-severe COVID-19 pneumonia: RTMX-20 trial”

Z Li, Y Hu, Q Li - Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2023 - thegreenjournal.com
Low-dose whole-lung irradiation (LDWLI), a novel potential therapy of coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia, is a readily available modern medical resource worldwide [1] …