Red face may be a specific sign of SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant

Japan is currently suffering the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the dominant type being SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant. Patients with COVID-19 variant types show more aggressive symptoms. In the present study, three patients developed a red face during treatment. Two of them suddenly worsened...

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Autores principales: Nakaya, Aya, Ogura, Eiji, Katayama, Yuki, Yoshii, Masami, Yoshino, Eiko, Hozumi, Kazuya, Tago, Saori, Teranishi, Yuko, Minamibashi, Yuki, Harada, Makiko, Yoshioka, Mami, Kawano, Yuri, Arai, Yuka, Yoshida, Keno, Shimizu, Shozo, Ogura, Kazuma, Iwashita, Katsuaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8247189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34230877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01214
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Sumario:Japan is currently suffering the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the dominant type being SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant. Patients with COVID-19 variant types show more aggressive symptoms. In the present study, three patients developed a red face during treatment. Two of them suddenly worsened shortly after. We assumed that the red face reflected a cytokine storm and conjectured that it may be a specific sign of variant type COVID-19, because we have never seen it in patients with non-variant type. Moreover, we believe that red face may be predictive of a sudden deterioration.

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