Immunologic Dysregulation and Hypercoagulability as a Pathophysiologic Background in COVID-19 Infection and the Immunomodulating Role of Colchicine

In 2020, SARS-COV-2 put health systems under unprecedented resource and manpower pressure leading to significant number of deaths. Expectedly, researchers sought to shed light on the pathophysiologic background of this novel disease (COVID-19) as well as to facilitate the design of effective therape...

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Autores principales: Dimitrios A. Vrachatis, Konstantinos A. Papathanasiou, Sotiria G. Giotaki, Konstantinos Raisakis, Charalampos Kossyvakis, Andreas Kaoukis, Fotis Kolokathis, Gerasimos Deftereos, Konstantinos E. Iliodromitis, Dimitrios Avramides, Harilaos Bogossian, Gerasimos Siasos, George Giannopoulos, Bernhard Reimers, Alexandra Lansky, Jean-Claude Tardif, Spyridon Deftereos
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/7f199d476d6340c69eb0fd2256992511
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Sumario:In 2020, SARS-COV-2 put health systems under unprecedented resource and manpower pressure leading to significant number of deaths. Expectedly, researchers sought to shed light on the pathophysiologic background of this novel disease (COVID-19) as well as to facilitate the design of effective therapeutic modalities. Indeed, early enough the pivotal role of inflammatory and thrombotic pathways in SARS-COV-2 infection has been illustrated. The purpose of this article is to briefly present the epidemiologic and clinical features of COVID-19, analyze the pathophysiologic importance of immunologic dysregulation and hypercoagulability in developing disease complications and finally to present an up-to-date systematic review of colchicine’s immunomodulating capacity in view of hindering coronavirus complications.