Whole-lung Low Dose Irradiation for SARS-Cov2 Induced Pneumonia in the Geriatric Population: An Old Effective Treatment for a New Disease? Recommendation of the International Geriatric Radiotherapy Group

A cytokine storm induced by SARS-Cov2 may produce pneumonitis which may be fatal for older patients with underlying lung disease. Hyper-elevation of Interleukin1 (IL-1), Tumor necrosis factor-1alfa (TNF-1 alfa), and Interleukin 6 (IL-6) produced by inflammatory macrophage M1 may damage the lung alve...

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Autores principales: Lara, Pedro C, Nguyen, Nam P, Macias-Verde, David, Burgos-Burgos, Javier, Arenas, Meritxell, Zamagni, Alice, Vinh-Hung, Vincent, Baumert, Brigitta G, Motta, Micaela, Myint, Arthur Sun, Bonet, Marta, Popescu, Tiberiu, Vuong, Te, Appalanaido, Gokula Kumar, Trigo, Lurdes, Karlsson, Ulf, Thariat, Juliette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JKL International LLC 2020
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Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7220282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32489696
http://dx.doi.org/10.14336/AD.2020.0506

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