应聘全职及兼职编辑,发送简历至 chenlf@high-med.com SARS-COV-2是一种新的β属冠状病毒,引起COVID-19。COVID-19最常见的临床表现是肺炎,伴有发烧、咳嗽和呼吸困难。中国CDC报告,44,500例确诊感染病例中80%为轻度疾病(没有或只有轻度肺炎),14%为重症(呼吸困难、缺氧或影像显示超过50%的肺部受累),5%为危重疾病(以呼吸衰竭、全身休克或多器官衰竭为特征)。 急性呼吸窘迫综合征(ARDS)是重症病毒性肺炎的一种常见并发症,在1099例COVID-19住院患者中,15.6%的重症肺炎患者发生ARDS。ARDS的发生与炎症因子TNF-α等密切相关。 COVID-19病理性炎症 过度炎症反应被认为是COVID-19患者病情危重和死亡的主要原因。 尸检结果也显示,患者体内存在高水平炎症因子、低水平淋巴细胞和高水平的单核细胞。血液中较高水平的炎症标志物(包括C反应蛋白、铁蛋白和D-二聚体)与疾病的严重程度和死亡有关。 COVID-19病理性炎症细胞 药物治疗展望 喵评:病理性炎症及纤维化,导致肺功能不全及全身多器官功能不全,是COVID-19病情危重之因。应当基于病理生理基础,开发药物、开展临床。 参考文献: 1. Chen, N. et al. Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study. Lancet 395, 507–513 (2020). 2. Huang, C. et al. Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. Lancet 395, 497–506 (2020). 3. Miriam Merad and Jerome C. Martin,Pathological inflammation in patients with COVID-19: a key role for monocytes and macrophages,Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 4. Richardson, S. et al. Presenting characteristics, comorbidities, and outcomes among 5700 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the New York City area. JAMA https:///10.1001/jama.2020.6775 (2020). 5. Mehta, P. et al. COVID-19: consider cytokine storm syndromes and immunosuppression. Lancet 395, 1033–1034 (2020) 6. Ziegler, C. et al. SARS- CoV-2 receptor ACE2 is an interferon- stimulated gene in human airway epithelial cells and is enriched in specific cell subsets across tissues. Cell (2020). 7. Wen, W. et al. Immune cell profiling of COVID-19 patients in the recovery stage by single- cell sequencing. Preprint at medRxiv https:///10.1101/2020.03.23.20039362 (2020). 作者:挑食的喵 来源:闲谈 Immunology |
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