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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 Alpha variant (B.1.1.7), original wild-type severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and cytomegalovirus co-infection in a young adult with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, case report, and review of the possible cytomegalovirus reactivation mechanisms
ConclusionThe coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has encountered patients with cancer with critical diagnostic and treatment challenges. Patients who are immunocompromised may co-infect with multiple severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 strains and cytomegalovirus, and even with timely diagnosis and treatment, the prognosis may be poor.
Source: Journal of Medical Case Reports - February 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research

Researchers Are Studying Whether Paxlovid Can Treat Long COVID
Months after catching COVID-19 in December 2021, Lavanya Visvabharathy was still testing positive on antigen tests and suffering from symptoms including headaches and intense fatigue. So Visvabharathy, a research assistant professor of neurology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine who has studied Long COVID since 2020, decided to conduct an experiment on herself. She asked her doctor to prescribe her Paxlovid, an antiviral therapy that can treat COVID-19 by inhibiting replication of the virus that causes it. Paxlovid is meant to keep high-risk patients with acute COVID-19 from developing severe disea...
Source: TIME: Health - November 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

A Case of Heart Transplantation for Fulminant Myocarditis After ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccination
J Korean Med Sci. 2022 Apr 4;37(13):e104. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2022.37.e104.ABSTRACTVaccines have become the mainstay of management against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection (coronavirus disease 2019; COVID-19) in the absence of effective antiviral therapy. Various adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccination have been reported, including cardiovascular complications such as myocarditis or pericarditis. Herein, we describe clinical records of a 63-year woman with fulminant myocarditis following ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccination that was salvaged by heart transplantation. She complained chest pain, na...
Source: Journal of Korean Medical Science - April 5, 2022 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Seok Hyun Kim Soo Yong Lee Ga Yun Kim Ji Soo Oh Jeongsu Kim Kook Jin Chun Min Ho Ju Chee-Hoon Lee Yeo-Jeong Song Joo-Young Na Source Type: research