Publisher Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s).; BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Endocan has been scarcely explored in COVID-19, especially regarding its modulation by veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO), hypertension or previous renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors treatment. We compared endocan and other endotheliitis markers in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and assessed their modula...
Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Resolvin E1 (RvE1) and Resolvin D1 (RvD1) are key resolvins implicated in inflammation resolution of respiratory and infectious diseases. In contrast to cytokines, they have been scarcely explored in COVID-19 and their ability for discriminating...
Publisher Copyright: © 2022 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved.; Up to 27 May 2022, Portugal has detected 96 confirmed cases of monkeypox. We describe 27 confirmed cases (median age: 33 years (range: 22–51); all males), with an earliest symptom onset date of 29 April. Almost all cases (n = 25) live in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley health region. Most cases were neither ...