A guide to immunotherapy for COVID-19

FL van de Veerdonk, E Giamarellos-Bourboulis… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Immune dysregulation is an important component of the pathophysiology of COVID-19. A
large body of literature has reported the effect of immune-based therapies in patients with …

Inflammasome activation at the crux of severe COVID-19

SM Vora, J Lieberman, H Wu - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), results in life-threatening disease in a minority of patients, especially elderly …

Early treatment of COVID-19 with anakinra guided by soluble urokinase plasminogen receptor plasma levels: a double-blind, randomized controlled phase 3 trial

E Kyriazopoulou, G Poulakou, H Milionis, S Metallidis… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Early increase of soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) serum levels is
indicative of increased risk of progression of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to …

Calming the cytokine storm in COVID-19

RQ Cron, R Caricchio, WW Chatham - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Calming the cytokine storm in COVID-19 | Nature Medicine Skip to main content Thank you for
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Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) as a biomarker of systemic chronic inflammation

LJH Rasmussen, JEV Petersen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Systemic chronic inflammation (SCI) is persistent, health-damaging, low-grade inflammation
that plays a major role in immunosenescence and in development and progression of many …

An open label trial of anakinra to prevent respiratory failure in COVID-19

E Kyriazopoulou, P Panagopoulos, S Metallidis… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Background: It was studied if early suPAR-guided anakinra treatment can prevent severe
respiratory failure (SRF) of COVID-19. Methods: A total of 130 patients with suPAR≥ 6 ng/ml …

COVID-19 and diabetes: a collision and collusion of two diseases

EL Feldman, MG Savelieff, SS Hayek, S Pennathur… - Diabetes, 2020 - Am Diabetes Assoc
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has infected> 22.7 million and led to
the deaths of 795,000 people worldwide. Patients with diabetes are highly susceptible to …

Soluble urokinase receptor (SuPAR) in COVID-19–related AKI

TU Azam, HR Shadid, P Blakely… - Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background AKI commonly occurs in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Its
pathogenesis is poorly understood. The urokinase receptor system is a key regulator of the …

Clinical features and prognostic factors in Covid-19: a prospective cohort study

S de Bruin, LD Bos, MA van Roon, AM Tuip-de Boer… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Mortality rates are high among hospitalized patients with COVID-19, especially
in those intubated on the ICU. Insight in pathways associated with unfavourable outcome …

Inflammation, hyperglycemia, and adverse outcomes in individuals with diabetes mellitus hospitalized for COVID-19

A Vasbinder, E Anderson, H Shadid, H Berlin… - Diabetes …, 2022 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major risk factor for severe coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) for reasons that are unclear. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We …