This document is intended for clinicians taking care of hospitalised adult and paediatric patients with severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) when a nCoV infection is suspected. It is not meant to replace clinical judgment or specialist consultation but rather to strengthen clinical management of these patients and provide to up-to-date guidance…
Periodico online della Società Italiana di Ecocardiografia e CardioVascular Imaging – numero 34 – marzo 2020 – speciale COVID-19…
Annual influenza epidemics are like Minnesota winters — all are challenges, but some are worse than others. No matter how well we prepare, some blizzards take quite a toll. Each year, despite our ef- forts to increase the rates of influenza vaccination in our most vulnerable populations, unpredictable factors largely determine the burden of influenza disease and related deaths…
There are many pharmacologic therapies that are being used or considered for treatment of COVID-19. There is a need for frequently updated practice guidelines on their use, based on critical evaluation of rapidly emerging literature…
L’infezione da Sars-Cov-2 rappresenta una sfida senza precedenti per la medicina moderna. Gli sforzi fatti per comprendere le caratteristiche microbiologiche del virus e le misure messe in atto per ridurre il numero di contagi hanno portato ad un parziale contenimento della malattia a livello mondiale. In questo breve documento sono contenuti alcuni elementi per l’adeguata gestione del caso sospetto in ambiente ospedaliero e territoriale al fine di ottimizzare manovre di contenimento e gestione del paziente…
Viral epidemics or pandemics of acute respiratory infections like influenza or severe acute respiratory syndrome pose a global threat. Antiviral drugs and vaccinations may be insufficient to prevent their spread…
On Mar. 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pan- demic. The worldwide spread of COVID-19 represents a profound threat to human health. Patients with COVID-19 present primarily with fever, cough, and myalgia or fatigue, and sometimes initially with predominantly gastrointestinal symptoms…
At a time when Italy and all world is dramatically faced with the challenge of the SARS-Cov-2 infection, hitting many aspects of human civilization, Commissione Salute of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei felt that it is part of its social responsibility to provide the society at large with an Executive Summary of the current status of understanding of origin, pathogenesis, and treatment of COVID-19 pandemic…
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a viral respiratory illness caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), may predispose patients to thrombotic disease, both in the venous and arterial circulations, due to excessive inflammation, platelet activation, endothelial dysfunction, and stasis…
In the rapidly evolving management of seriously ill patients affected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) there is usually insufficient evidence available to make true practice guidelines. The question responses represent the opinion of a group of venous specialists who have reviewed the currently available evidence and have communicated with specialists in high volume sites in the US and internationally…
Solid data is lacking, but an emerging body of evidence suggests that COVID-19 may predispose patients to arterial and venous thrombotic disease, and that some of the therapies under investigation may pose distinct drug-drug interactions with common antithrombotic medications…
We report five cases of large-vessel stroke in patients younger than 50 years of age who presented to our health system in New York City. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection was diagnosed in all five patients…
La comunità scientifica desidera contribuire al governo di questa emergenza, proponendo un modello di gestione del paziente con ictus cerebrale acuto che tenga conto della nuova realtà epidemiologica e, soprattutto, della rimodulazione del setting in cui gli operatori sanitari, e in particolare i Neurologi coinvolti nella cura del paziente con ictus, sono chiamati ad operare…
Partendo dalle evidenze presenti in letteratura, lo scopo di questo articolo è analizzare i possibili meccanismi coinvolti nel processo coagulativo a seguito dell’infezione da COVID-19 e quali potrebbero essere le strategie terapeutiche vascolari da poter attuare…