During some severe cases of COVID-19, a macrophage-induced cytokine storm occurs, which can lead to lasting tissue damage and poor patient outcomes. However, it is unclear how the SARS-CoV-2 infection ...

Winn Chatham, MD (Professor, Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology) and pediatrics colleague Dr. Randy Cron are testing a treatment to halt the potentially fatal immune over-reaction known as cytokine ...

Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have shown that the innate immune sensor, ZBP1, and its associated inflammatory cell death pathway, PANoptosis, are major contributors to the ...

· Crucial to find and aggressively treat secondary bacterial pneumonia in ICU patients CHICAGO --- Secondary bacterial infection of the lung (pneumonia) was extremely common in patients with COVID-19, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Future strategies for managing cytokine storm may rely on adequately predicting treatment ...

A recent study published in the journal PNAS reports that abdominal obesity is associated with excessive inflammatory responses and an increased risk of mortality in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 ...

Credit: Getty Images. Researchers evaluated liver test abnormalities in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and assessed cytokine levels in individuals with vs without abnormal test results.

Pathogens, autoimmune and malignant diseases, genetic disorders, and some therapeutic interventions can lead to life-threatening systemic inflammatory syndromes. The common feature of cytokine release ...

COVID-19 patients can develop a number of neurological symptoms during the acute phase of the disease. These include loss of smell, cognitive problems, headaches, dizziness, and even delirium, which ...

Terracotta funerary plaque, ca. 520-510 BC. Athenian. As deaths from COVID-19 continue to climb worldwide, many mourn loved ones to whom they were not able to say goodbye and because of social ...