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ReviewFrontiers in immunology

Cytokine Storm in COVID-19: "When You Come Out of the Storm, You Won't Be the Same Person Who Walked in".

Vanessa Castelli, Annamaria Cimini, Claudio Ferri

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Review in Frontiers in immunology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
77citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

77 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. COVID-19 Pneumonia and Cytokine Storm Syndrome.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
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17 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vanessa CastelliDepartment of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
Annamaria CiminiDepartment of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
Claudio FerriDepartment of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
University of L'Aquila · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In December 2019, a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, was discovered to be the causal agent of a severe respiratory infection named SARS-CoV-2, and it has since been recognized worldwide as a pandemic. There are still numerous doubts concerning its pathogenesis and particularly the underlying causes of the various clinical courses, ranging from severe manifestations to asymptomatic forms, including acute respiratory distress syndrome. The major factor responsible for acute respiratory distress syndrome is the so-called "cytokine storm," which is an aberrant response from the host immune system that induces an exaggerated release of proinflammatory cytokines/chemokines. In this review, we will discuss the role of cytokine storm in COVID-19 and potential treatments with which counteract this aberrant response, which may be valuable in the clinical translation.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedBetacoronavirusChemokinesCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19GlucocorticoidsHumansHydroxychloroquineInterleukin 1 Receptor Antagonist ProteinPandemicsPneumonia, ViralReceptors, Interleukin-6Respiratory Distress SyndromeSARS-CoV-2Antibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedChemokinesGlucocorticoidsHydroxychloroquineIL6R protein, humanInterleukin 1 Receptor Antagonist ProteinReceptors, Interleukin-6sarilumabtocilizumabacute respiratory distresscoronaviruscytokinesinflammationSARS-CoV2severity

Identifiers

PMID32983172
PMCPMC7492381
OpenAlexW3081804060

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