Inflammation

Gut microbial dysbiosis and resulting inflammation may play a role in the development of gestational diabetes mellitus as early as the first trimester of pregnancy, according to a report in Gut.

CHICAGO — In this Healio video exclusive, Paul Feuerstadt, MD, FACG, AGAF, recaps results from a real-world analysis of Zinplava for prevention of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection in patients with congestive heart failure.

IV allogeneic mesenchymal stromal cells may reduce inflammatory response and thereby reduce the progression of small abdominal aortic aneurysms, a speaker reported.

Higher CT severity scores at hospitalization and 3 months after were linked to poorer lung function in survivors of COVID-19-associated hyperinflammation, according to study results published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine.

Boomerang Medical announced that the first patients have been enrolled in its U.S. clinical trial assessing the use of nerve stimulation as potential treatment for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

Patients hospitalized for acute MI with a high platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio are up to three times more likely to experience major adverse CV events in the 30 days after undergoing PCI, researchers reported.

Moderate to severe depression in patients with lung cancer was linked to elevated inflammation levels, and the biomarkers measuring inflammation predicted poor survival, according to study results published in PLOS ONE.

NEW ORLEANS —Pruritus could be a reliable indicator of inflammation in central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, according to a poster presented here.

Born and raised in New York City, Benjamin Ungar, MD, considers himself a “lifer” at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz — The study of COVID-19 may in turn improve the understanding of immunology by demonstrating that the immune system is “highly alive,” said a speaker at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.