2.Treatment of osteosarcoma patients in the Philippine General Hospital during the COVID-19 outbreak
Czar Louie L. Gaston ; Hazel Valerie Yu ; Emileo Dacanay ; Cesar Cipriano Dimayuga ; Jochrys Estanislao ; Pamela Fajardo ; Albert Jerome Quintos ; Donnel Alexis Rubio ; Edward Wang ; Ana Patricia Alcasabas
Acta Medica Philippina 2021;55(2):242-246
Objectives. The ongoing Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted healthcare systems worldwide. This study aimed to document the effect of COVID-19 on osteosarcoma treatment pathways in the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) and determine if there were any delays.
Method. A retrospective review of osteosarcoma patients treated at the PGH from January 1, 2019 – January 1, 2020 (pre-COVID-19) was compared to those treated during the COVID-19 pandemic from March 1, 2020 – September 1, 2020. Rates of diagnosed osteosarcoma, admission for chemotherapy, admission for surgery, treatment abandonment, metastatic disease on presentation, 1-year mortality, and amputation were calculated and compared between the two groups.
Results. From March to September 2020, 11 newly diagnosed osteosarcoma patients sought consult at the PGH. Only one patient sought consult during the initial 3-4 months of the study, suggesting that patients delayed seeking healthcare during the period of enhanced community quarantine. Patients seen during the pandemic had a higher rate of metastatic disease on presentation, reflecting the delay in diagnosis. Due to COVID-19 restrictions early in the pandemic, osteosarcoma patients were coordinated and referred to outside hospitals for intravenous chemotherapy and surgery. Normalization of services (hospital admissions, limb salvage surgeries) were seen at the later stages of the study, corresponding to the loosening of the quarantine.
Conclusions. Osteosarcoma patients experienced delays in seeking consult, diagnosis, and treatment at the PGH due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Early indicators suggest worse outcomes for these patients due to the delays. Strategies employed during the pandemic, such as networking of care and telemedicine, may help in future outbreaks.
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Coronavirus Infections
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Pandemics
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Osteosarcoma
4.The interdependent complexity of disaster and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
Epidemiology and Health 2016;38(1):e2016053-
No abstract available.
Coronavirus Infections*
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5.Understanding and Modeling the Super-spreading Events of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak in Korea.
Infection and Chemotherapy 2016;48(2):147-149
No abstract available.
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8.Porcine deltacoronavirus induces mitochondrial apoptosis in ST cells.
Shaoyong JIAO ; Cui LIN ; Liuyang DU ; Junli LIU ; Jinyan GU ; Jiyong ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2019;35(6):1050-1058
Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is a newly emerging enteropathogenic swine coronavirus causing acute diarrhea and vomiting in pigs. The apoptosis of ST cells induced by PDCoV infection was studied in this research. In ST cells, caspase activity assay showed that the activity of caspase 3, caspase 8 and caspase 9 increased significantly with the infection of PDCoV, but not observed in UV irradiated PDCoV-infected cells, indicating that PDCoV infection activated both endogenous and exogenous apoptotic pathways in ST cells, and the induction of apoptosis depended on viral replication. To further investigate the endogenous apoptosis induced by PDCoV, cytochrome C and apoptosis-inducing factors in cytoplasm and mitochondria were detected. Compared with normal cells, the amount of cytochrome C released from mitochondria to cytoplasm increased significantly in PDCoV-infected cells, and the release increased with the prolongation of infection, while the apoptosis-inducing factor was always localized to mitochondria, suggesting that PDCoV induced apoptosis was initiated through caspase-dependent mitochondrial apoptosis pathway by promoting cytochrome C in the mitochondrial membrane gap into the cytosol. In conclusion, this study reveals the mechanism of PDCoV inducing apoptosis.
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Apoptosis
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Coronavirus
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Coronavirus Infections
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Mitochondria
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Swine
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Swine Diseases
9.Acute Kidney Injury in COVID-19 is Associated with Mortality: A Meta-Analysis
Ni Made Putri Lastiana ; Dian Daniella Marianto
Philippine Journal of Internal Medicine 2020;59(1):14-21
BACKGROUND: By March 2020, The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) as a global pandemic. Further investigations found that COVID-19 may lead to acute kidney injury (AKI). Some studies have been done, but the incidence and outcome of AKI in COVID-19 are variable between studies. Moreover, given the high number of COVID-19 cases in our country, we aimed to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis regarding the detailed outcome of AKI in COVID-19 patients as reported in the available literature.
METHODS: We performed a comprehensive literature search from several databases, such as Europe PMC, PubMed, ProQuest, Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ), and related references between December 1, 2019, and December 5, 2020. The primary outcome was mortality, and the secondary outcomes were the need for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) care, severe and critical COVID-19 infection, and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).
RESULTS: There were a total of 25,990 patients from 21 studies. Acute kidney injury was associated with increased odds of mortality (OR 13.43 [8.35, 21.60], p < 0.00001; I2 : 82%, p < 0.00001), need for ICU care (OR 14.57 [8.51, 24.94], p < 0.00001; I2: 84%; p < 0.0001), critical COVID-19 (OR 10.41 [3.88, 27.90], p < 0.00001; I2: 67%; p = 0.02), and ARDS (OR 2.84 [1.30, 6.22], p = 0.009; I2: 91%; p = 0.001).
CONCLUSION: Acute kidney injury is associated with mortality, need for ICU care, critical COVID-19 patients, and ARDS.
Coronavirus
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COVID-19
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Coronavirus Infections
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Acute Kidney Injury
10.Viral Shedding and Environmental Cleaning in Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection.
Joon Young SONG ; Hee Jin CHEONG ; Min Joo CHOI ; Ji Ho JEON ; Seong Hee KANG ; Eun Ju JEONG ; Jin Gu YOON ; Saem Na LEE ; Sung Ran KIM ; Ji Yun NOH ; Woo Joo KIM
Infection and Chemotherapy 2015;47(4):252-255
Viral shedding lasted 31 and 19 days from symptom onset in two patients with east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) pneumonia, respectively. Environmental real-time RT-PCR was weakly positive for bed guardrail and monitors. Even after cleaning the monitors with 70% alcohol-based disinfectant, RT-PCR was still weakly positive, and converted to negative only after wiping with diluted sodium chlorite. Further studies are required to clarify the appropriate methods to clean environments during and after treatment of patients with MERS-CoV infection.
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