Inflammation

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.

A composite biomarker score derived from six metabolites that indicate malnutrition or inflammation provided strong stratification of all-cause mortality in two large, independent cohorts that underwent cardiac catheterization, data show.

Severe inflammation among individuals with acute myeloid leukemia limits their bodies’ ability to kill cancerous blood cells, according to study results.

Sensitization to Staphylococcal enterotoxin was correlated with type 2-high inflammation among children with moderate to severe asthma, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

This two-part series will review innovative sustained-delivery options in the retina space for both long- and short-term indications.

Researchers identified a correlation between urine albumin-to-creatine ratio and worse physical performance among individuals with and those without chronic kidney disease, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.