cytokine storm

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19:56 Jan 4, 2021
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COVID-19 - Medical - Medical (general)
Additional field(s): Medical: Health Care, Medical (general), Journalism
English term or phrase: cytokine storm
Definition from Oxford English Dictionary:
an overactive immune response occurring in various infectious and non-infectious diseases, characterized by the excessive production of cytokines and resulting in intense localized or generalized inflammation.

Example sentence(s):
  • Researchers aren’t sure what percentage of severely ill patients will die from a cytokine storm, or even why some people who are infected will go on to have this reaction, while others won’t WebMD
  • Like many other viruses, particularly SARS, MERS, and influenza, the cytokine storm has been used as a warning sign for clinicians to recognize disease escalation. News Medical
  • The combination of hyperinflammation, coagulopathy, and low platelet counts places patients with cytokine storm at high risk for spontaneous hemorrhage. The New England Journal of Medicine
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5tempesta de citocines
Elisabet Carreras


  

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tempesta de citocines


Definition from TERMCAT:
Situació de gran desequilibri immunitari, potencialment mortal, en què es produeix un fenomen de retroalimentació positiva incontrolable entre les citocines i les cèl·lules immunitàries davant determinats agents patògens.

Example sentence(s):
  • La tempesta de citocines s'ha convertit en un terme habitual des que convivim amb la pandèmia de la Covid-19. Fa referència a una sobreactivació del sistema immune que es produeix en algunes persones infectades pel virus. Quan es produeix s'alliberen grans quantitats de leucòcits i citocines proinflamatòries que poden derivar en una síndrome d'insuficiència respiratòria aguda, una de les principals causes de mortalitat per Covid-19, o en un dany orgànic irreversible. - elNacional.Cat  
Elisabet Carreras
Spain
Local time: 16:16
Native speaker of: Native in CatalanCatalan, Native in SpanishSpanish
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