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- Title
Ferritin levels and COVID-19.
- Authors
Vargas-Vargas, Manuel; Cortés-Rojo, Christian
- Abstract
The article focuses on ferritin is a key mediator of immune dysregulation, especially under extreme hyperferritinemia, via direct immune-suppressive and pro-inflammatory effects, contributing to the cytokine storm. Topics include the fatal outcomes by COVID-19 are accompanied by cytokine storm syndrome has been suggested that disease severity is dependent of the cytokine storm syndrome, and the hypothesis that ferritin levels might be a crucial factor influencing the severity of COVID-19.
- Subjects
BIOMARKERS; CHELATION therapy; DEFEROXAMINE; FERRITIN; COVID-19; CYTOKINE release syndrome
- Publication
Pan American Journal of Public Health / Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020, Vol 44, p1
- ISSN
1020-4989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26633/RPSP.2020.72