Prediction of Respiratory Failure and Mortality in COVID-19 Patients Using Long Pentraxin PTX3

• Main Authors: Cecilie Bo Hansen (Author), Håkon Sandholdt (Author), Maria Elizabeth Engel Møller (Author), Laura Pérez-Alós (Author), Lise Pedersen (Author), Simone Bastrup Israelsen (Author), Peter Garred (Author), Thomas Benfield (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The course of COVID-19 is unpredictable, ranging from asymptomatic to respiratory failure and death. Prognostic biomarkers are urgently needed. We hypothesized that long pentraxin PTX3 could be a valuable plasma biomarker due to its essential role in inflammatory processes. In a prospective hospital...