Cytokine Status of Covid-19 Patients

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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COVID-19, spreading rapidly all over the world, causes serious morbidity and mortality. In severe COVID-19 infections, after pulmonary inflammation, cardiovascular organ failure, cytokine storm, hemophagocytosis, septic shock, develops due to uncontrolled hypoxia, and isolated organ failure turns into multi-organ failure. It is noteworthy that it causes lymphopenia in patients. In the studies, the blood levels of certain inflammatory cytokines, interleukin-1β,interleukin-6 and TNF-α, were evaluated. In addition, blood values of a limited number of cytokines were investigated similarly in a limited number of studies published in our country.

Detailed Description
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The causative agent of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disease, which started in Wuhan province of China in December 2019, was severe acute respiratory failure syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which quickly spread all over the world and caused a pandemic. COVID-19 can cause death with symptoms such as fever, cough, muscle pain, shortness of breath, and pneumonia (1). Pulmonary pathology of COVID-19 is diffuse alveolar damage, focal reactive hyperplasia of pneumocytes with patchy inflammatory cells, intravascular thrombosis, monocyte, macrophage and lymphocyte infiltration into pulmonary spaces. Severe infiltration of pulmonary tissue affects alveolar gas exchange. In addition, cardiovascular morbidity, tachyarrhythmia and thromboembolic events are observed in 1/5 of the hospitalized patients with troponin elevation, which is closely related to mortality. In severe COVID-19 infections, after pulmonary inflammation, cardiovascular organ failure, cytokine storm, hemophagocytosis, septic shock, develops due to uncontrolled hypoxia, and isolated organ failure turns into multi-organ failure. It is noteworthy that it causes lymphopenia in patients. In the studies , the blood levels of certain inflammatory cytokines, interleukin-1β,interleukin-6 and TNF-α, were evaluated. In addition, blood values of a limited number of cytokines were investigated in a similar way in a limited number of studies published in our country. We aimed to study IL-1β, IFN-α2, IFN-γ, TNF-α, MCP-1 (CCL2), IL-6, IL-8 (CXCL8), IL-10, IL-12p70, IL-17A, IL-18, IL-23, IL-33 at Covid 19 and healthy volunteers.

Official Title
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The Cytokine Status of Covid-19 Patients

Conditions
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Covid19

Intervention / Treatment
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* Diagnostic Test: Flow cytometric analysis


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Patients with Covid 19 PCR (+) results Exclusion Criteria: Cancer Patients Patients with known immunodeficiency Pregnancy

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 80 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Case Group<br>Patients with Covid 19 PCR (+) results | Diagnostic Test: Flow cytometric analysis<br>* IL-1β, IFN-α2, IFN-γ, TNF-α, MCP-1 (CCL2), IL-6, IL-8 (CXCL8), IL-10, IL-12p70, IL-17A, IL-18, IL-23, IL-33 cytokine analysis of COvid-19 patients and healthy volunteers<br>|
| Control Group<br>Healthy volunteers | Diagnostic Test: Flow cytometric analysis<br>* IL-1β, IFN-α2, IFN-γ, TNF-α, MCP-1 (CCL2), IL-6, IL-8 (CXCL8), IL-10, IL-12p70, IL-17A, IL-18, IL-23, IL-33 cytokine analysis of COvid-19 patients and healthy volunteers<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cytokine levels of patients | IL-1β, IFN-α2, IFN-γ, TNF-α, MCP-1 (CCL2), IL-6, IL-8 (CXCL8), IL-10, IL-12p70, IL-17A, IL-18, IL-23, IL-33 levels | 1 month | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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interleukin, cytokine