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Department of Radiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi-kamicho Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Review Article   
  Clinical Manifestation of Endotheliitis in COVID-19 along with Flow-Mediated Vasodilation Study
  Author(s): Kazumi Fujioka*
  
  The emerging Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a worldwide outbreak and still has spread relentlessly and recrudescence due to the new mutant’s occurrence. The respiratory failure from Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) presents the major cause of mortality and multi-organ failure represents other causes of mortality in patients with COVID-19. The author previously described a link between endothelial dysfunction and SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with COVID-19 and cutaneous manifestation and vasculitis of COVID-19 in dermatology, suggesting that COVID-19 may be a systemic endothelial disease or a multi-organ disease especially in the severe stage. In this review, the author emphasizes that COVID-19 represents a systemic endothelial disease and/or a multi-organ disease.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-0870.21.11.475

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