Blood Test Can Reveal How Serious A Corona Infection is in a Patient, Revealed in Scientific Research
Doctors can now check the blood test of Covid-19 patients and find out which patients are more at risk of becoming seriously ill and who may need to be put on a ventilator.
New York, IANS. Doctors can now check the blood test of Covid-19 patients to find out which patients are at higher risk of becoming seriously ill and which may need to be put on a ventilator. Researchers say this research paves the way for new treatments to prevent the lethal ‘cytokine storm’ seen in severe cases of COVID-19. Cytokine storm is a condition when the body starts releasing cytokines in excess of protein in the bloodstream very fast. This can also help in understanding why fatal results are seen in patients infected with coronavirus due to diabetes.
The discovery may lead to new treatments to prevent the deadly cytokine storm encountered in severe cases of COVID-19. It can also help explain why coronavirus patients have bad diabetes outcomes. Researchers at the University of Virginia (UVA) found that at diagnosis a particular cytokine level in the blood could be used to predict subsequent outcomes.
Cytokines — the proteins produced by immune cells, are responsible for severe overgrowth by the immune system. This is known as a cytokine storm. It is associated with COVID-19 and other serious diseases. University of Virginia (UVA) researcher Bill Petrie said the immune response we discovered to detect severe shortness of breath in corona patients causes damage to other lung diseases.
Petrie further noted that this could lead to a new way to prevent shortness of breath in newly corona virus-infected individuals. By inhibiting this cytokine. We plan to test it in a model of coronavirus before considering clinical testing. For the findings, the research team identified 57 Corona patients treated at the University of Virginia (UVA) who eventually needed ventilators.
University of Virginia School of Medicine did research
Scientists, including Mayuresh Abhayankar of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, found that the level of a particular cytokine in the blood during the investigation could be used to predict later results. The researchers said that the disease is responsible for many of the severe over-reactions of the immune system, the protein produced by immune cells, which we call cytokine storm, and is associated with COVID-19 and other serious diseases.
He said that this discovery can become part of the scoring system, on the basis of which doctors can identify and monitor high-risk COVID-19 patients and pay close attention to them individually.
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