The role of ionizing radiation for diagnosis and treatment against COVID-19: evidence and considerations

M Chalkia, NA Arkoudis, E Maragkoudakis, S Rallis… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread worldwide with
over 260 million people infected and more than 5 million deaths, numbers that are …

The immunomodulatory properties of low-level ionizing radiation as a potential treatment for COVID-19's life-threatening symptoms

SM Hussien - European Journal of Medical Research, 2023 - Springer
Public health experts are looking into the current coronavirus outbreak to see if there are any
ways to prevent potentially fatal symptoms. Low-Dose Radiotherapy (LD-RT) induces anti …

COVID-19: The disease, the immunological challenges, the treatment with pharmaceuticals and low-dose ionizing radiation

J Yu, EI Azzam, AB Jadhav, Y Wang - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
The year 2020 will be carved in the history books—with the proliferation of COVID-19 over
the globe and with frontline health workers and basic scientists worldwide diligently fighting …

Low dose radiation therapy for COVID-19 pneumonia: is there any supportive evidence?

S Salomaa, E Cardis, SD Bouffler… - … journal of radiation …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last two decades, humans have encountered three substantial outbreaks of new
coronavirus (CoV) epidemics. The first, in the early 2000s, was caused by the severe acute …

Is there any supportive evidence for low dose radiotherapy for COVID-19 pneumonia?

S Salomaa, SD Bouffler, MJ Atkinson… - … Journal of Radiation …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Since early April 2020, there has been intense debate over proposed clinical use of ionizing
radiation to treat life-threatening pneumonia in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Low-dose radiation therapy for coronavirus disease-2019 pneumonia: Is it time to look beyond apprehensions?

BN Pandey - Annals of Thoracic Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has become a global health crisis. Mortality
associated with COVID-19 is characterized mainly by acute respiratory distress syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Low‐dose radiation as a treatment for COVID‐19 pneumonia: A threat or real opportunity?

SMJ Mortazavi, A Kefayat, J Cai - Medical physics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Low-dose radiation is known to induce anti-inflammatory responses and has been
historically used for treating infectious diseases such as pneumonia. As the outbreak of …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of low-dose radiation therapy in COVID-19 patients globally: A systematic review

SR Pandey, SA Yadav, S Gautam, K Giri… - …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Novel Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) can affect multiple organs,
including the lungs, resulting in pneumonia. Apart from steroids, other anti-COVID drugs that …

COVID-19-associated pneumonia: radiobiological insights

S François, C Helissey, S Cavallero… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia to acute respiratory distress syndrome is linked to
a virus-induced “cytokine storm”, associated with systemic inflammation, coagulopathies …

Flying by the seat of our pants: is low dose radiation therapy for COVID-19 an option?

D Schaue, WH McBride - International journal of radiation biology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The discovery of X-rays in 1895 had a dramatic impact on many aspects of society. One was
the hope that it would be possible to treat some of the numerous infections and inflammatory …