The Artificial-Liver Blood-Purification System Can Effectively Improve Hypercytokinemia for COVID-19.
Front Immunol
; 11: 586073, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1021888
ABSTRACT
Since the December 2019 outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, the infection has spread locally and globally resulting in a pandemic. As the numbers of confirmed diagnoses and deaths continue to rise, COVID-19 has become the focus of international public health. COVID-19 is highly contagious, and there is no effective treatment yet. New treatment strategies are urgently needed to improve the treatment success rate of severe and critically ill patients. Increasing evidence has shown that a cytokine storm plays an important role in the progression of COVID-19. The artificial-liver blood-purification system (ALS) is expected to improve the outcome of the cytokine storm. In the present study, the levels of cytokines were detected in 12 COVID-19 patients pre- and post-ALS with promising results. The present study shows promising evidence that ALS can block the cytokine storm, rapidly remove the inflammatory mediators, and hopefully, suppress the progression of the disease, thereby providing a new strategy for the clinical treatment of COVID-19.
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Main subject:
Plasma Exchange
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Cytokines
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Hemoperfusion
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Cytokine Release Syndrome
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
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Liver
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
Front Immunol
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Fimmu.2020.586073
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