Lower brachial artery flow-mediated dilation is associated with a worse prognosis and more lung parenchymal involvement in Covid-19: Prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 is a highly infectious pathogenic coronavirus, which has appeared toward the end of 2019. The virus seen all over the world caused a pandemic of an acute respiratory disease named coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). It has been shown that the virus that uses angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptors is causing endothelial dysfunction resulting in vascular inflammation and coagulopathy. It is possible to assess endothelial dysfunction by the flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) technique. Our study aimed to demonstrate the effect of endothelial dysfunction assessed using the FMD on prognosis and mortality in the patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of Covid-19. In this prospective observational study, endothelial functions of 94 patients hospit

SUBMITTER: Guz G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9387661 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature