This collection showcases journal articles, preprints, and other publications and presentations about the Coronavirus COVID-19 by faculty and researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA, USA.
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Publications from 2020
Use of N95, Surgical, and Cloth Masks to Prevent COVID-19 in Health Care and Community Settings: Living Practice Points From the American College of Physicians (Version 1), Amir Qaseem, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, Jennifer Yost, Matthew C. Miller, George M. Abraham, Adam J. Obley, Mary Ann Forciea, Janet A. Jokela, and Linda L. Humphrey
Should Remdesivir Be Used for the Treatment of Patients With COVID-19? Rapid, Living Practice Points From the American College of Physicians (Version 1), Amir Qaseem, Jennifer Yost, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, George M. Abraham, Janet A. Jokela, Mary Ann Forciea, Matthew C. Miller, and Linda L. Humphrey
Should Clinicians Use Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine Alone or in Combination With Azithromycin for the Prophylaxis or Treatment of COVID-19, Amir Qaseem, Jennifer Yost, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, Matthew C. Miller, George M. Abraham, Adam Jacob Obley, Mary Ann Forciea, Janet A. Jokela, and Linda L. Humphrey
Post myocardial infarction complications during the COVID-19 pandemic - A case series, Waqas Qureshi, Summer Aldrugh, Adedotun Ogunsua, Colleen Harrington, Wahaj Aman, Leora B. Balsam, Biswajit Kar, Gerard P. Aurigemma, Amartya Kundu, Nirmal Kaur, Craig Smith, Daniel Z. Fisher, Jeffrey J. Rade, and Nikolaos Kakouros
Journal Club discussion of "Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study", Sanjay Ram and Stuart M. Levitz
Provider perceptions of a humanizing intervention for healthcare workers - a survey study of PPE Portraits, Jennifer Reidy, Cati Brown-Johnson, Nancy McCool, Shawna Steadman, Mary Beth Heffernan, and Vandana Nagpal
Lifestyle Medicine in the COVID-19 Era, James M. Rippe
COVID-19 Impact on Well-Being and Education in Radiology Residencies: A Survey of the Association of Program Directors in Radiology, Jessica B. Robbins, Eric England, Maitray D. Patel, Carolynn M. DeBenedectis, David S. Sarkany, Darel E. Heitkamp, James M. Milburn, Vivek Kalia, Kamran Ali, Glenn C. Gaviola, Christopher P. Ho, Ann K. Jay, Seng Ong, and Sheryl G. Jordan
Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the Practice of Clinical Radiology, Max P. Rosen, Alexander Norbash, Jonathan Kruskal, Carolyn C. Meltzer, Judy Yee, and James Thrall
Where will telemedicine go from here?, Katherine Rotker and Danielle Velez
A paradox of social distancing for SARS-CoV-2: loneliness and heightened immunological risk, Liron Rozenkrantz, Michael H. Bernstein, and Christopher C. Hemond
Analysis of Rapidly Emerging Variants in Structured Regions of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome [preprint], Sean P. Ryder
SARS-CoV-2 Receptors are Expressed on Human Platelets and the Effect of Aspirin on Clinical Outcomes in COVID-19 Patients [preprint], Aditya Sahai, Milka Koupenova-Zamor, Jane E. Freedman, and Scott Cameron
Nano-Vesicle (Mis)Communication in Senescence-Related Pathologies, Sherin Saheera, Ajay Godwin Potnuri, and Prasanna Krishnamurthy
COVID-19 related immune hemolysis and thrombocytopenia, Kamal Kant Sahu, Azra Borogovac, and Jan Cerny
A review on how to do hematology consults during COVID-19 pandemic, Kamal Kant Sahu and Jan Cerny
Managing patients with hematological malignancies during COVID-19 pandemic, Kamal Kant Sahu and Jan Cerny
Facing COVID-19 in the Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Setting: A New Challenge for Transplantation Physicians, Kamal Kant Sahu, Vishal Jindal, Ahmad Daniyal Siddiqui, and Jan Cerny
Convalescent Plasma Therapy: A Passive Therapy for An Aggressive COVID-19, Kamal Kant Sahu, Vishal Jindal, Ahmad Daniyal Siddiqui, Jan Cerny, and Jonathan M. Gerber
"Because Every Drop Counts": Blood donation during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kamal Kant Sahu, Manish Raturi, Ahmad Daniyal Siddiqui, and Jan Cerny
COVID-19 pandemic and impact on hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, Kamal Kant Sahu, Ahmad Daniyal Siddiqui, and Jan Cerny
Managing sickle cell patients with COVID-19 infection: the need to pool our collective experience, Kamal Kant Sahu, Ahmad Daniyal Siddiqui, and Jan Cerny
Mesenchymal Stem Cells in COVID-19: A Journey from Bench to Bedside, Kamal Kant Sahu, Ahmad Daniyal Siddiqui, and Jan Cerny
Challenges for Management of Immune Thrombocytopenia during COVID-19 Pandemic, Kamal Kant Sahu, Ahmad Daniyal Siddiqui, Nima Rezaei, and Jan Cerny
Considerations for Epidural Blood Patch and Other Postdural Puncture Headache Treatments in Patients with COVID-19, Pascal Scemama, Fadi Farah, Glen Mann, Roman Margulis, Karina Gritsenko, and Naum Shaparin
ACEing COVID-19: A Role For Angiotensin Axis Inhibition in SARS-CoV-2 infection, Ravi Shah, Milka Koupenova-Zamor, and Venkatesh L. Murthy
SARS-Coronavirus-2 nucleocapsid protein measured in blood using a Simoa ultra-sensitive immunoassay differentiates COVID-19 infection with high clinical sensitivity. [preprint], Dandan Shan, Eicke Latz, and Andrew J. Ball
Characteristics and Outcomes of Children With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection Admitted to US and Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Units, Lara S. Shekerdemian, Nabihah R. Mahmood, Katie K. Wolfe, Becky J. Riggs, Catherine E. Ross, Christine A. McKiernan, Sabrina M. Heidemann, Lawrence C. Kleinman, Anita I. Sen, Mark W. Hall, Margaret A. Priestley, John K. McGuire, Konstantinos Boukas, Matthew P. Sharron, Jeffrey P. Burns, and International COVID-19 PICU Collaborative
Development of a Surgical Workforce Access Team (SWAT) in the Battle Against COVID-19, Parth D. Sheth, Jessica P. Simons, Devon I. Robichaud, Andrea L. Ciaranello, and Andres Schanzer
Radiology podcasting as a model for asynchronous remote learning in the COVID-19 era, Tina Shiang, Christopher Cerniglia, Hannah Lin, and Hao S. Lo
Efficacy and Safety of Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine for COVID-19: A systematic review [preprint], Sonal Singh and Thomas J. Moore
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: A genetic, epidemiological, and evolutionary perspective, Manuela Sironi, Seyed E. Hasnain, Tung Phan, Fabio Luciani, Marie-Anne Shaw, M. Anice Sallum, Marzieh Ezzaty Mirhashemi, Serge Morand, and Fernando Gonzalez-Candelas
Healthcare Personnel Safety During Percutaneous Tracheostomy in Patients With COVID-19: Proof-of-Concept Study, Rahul N. Sood, Natasha Dudiki, Daniel Alape, and Mark W. Maxfield
Sudden olfactory loss as an early marker of COVID-19: a nationwide Italian survey, Lucrezia Spadera, Alfonso Scarpa, and Raffaella Pizzolato
Transitioning home: Tips for health care workers to keep their families safe, Kelly Sudnick
Mild and Asymptomatic Covid-19 Infections: Implications for Maternal, Fetal and Reproductive Health, Bei Sun and John Yeh
COVID-19: the novel coronavirus disease and its manifestations and management in ophthalmology, Shuo Sun, Wenqi Su, Christopher Q. Lin, Xiaorong Li, Hua Yan, Bo Tian, and Haijiang Lin
The values and limitations of mathematical modelling to COVID-19 in the world: a follow up report, Yuanji Tang, Sherry Tang, and Shixia Wang
Mathematic Modeling of COVID-19 in the United States, Yuanji Tang and Shixia Wang
Group Medical Visits and Clinician Wellbeing, Ariana Thompson-Lastad and Paula Gardiner
Considerations for the outpatient practice in pediatric surgery during the novel SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic, Michael V. Tirabassi
Age, Multiple Chronic Conditions, and COVID-19: A literature review, Mayra Tisminetzky, Christopher Delude, Tara Hebert, Catherine W. Carr, Robert J. Goldberg, and Jerry H. Gurwitz
The care of patients with Duchenne, Becker and other muscular dystrophies in the COVID-19 pandemic, Aravindhan Veerapandiyan, Kathryn R. Wagner, Susan Apkon, Craig M. McDonald, Katherine D. Mathews, Julie A. Parsons, Brenda L. Wong, Katy Eichinger, Perry B. Shieh, Russell J. Butterfield, Vamshi K. Rao, Edward C. Smith, Crystal M. Proud, Anne M. Connolly, and Emma Ciafaloni
Implementation of field hospital pharmacy services during the COVID-19 pandemic, Neil Wallis, Carmen Gust, Emily Porter, Neil Gilchrist, and Angel Amaral
Coagulopathy, endothelial dysfunction, thrombotic microangiopathy and complement activation: potential role of complement system inhibition in COVID-19, Xin Wang, Kamal Kant Sahu, and Jan Cerny
The Impact of COVID-19 on Cardiovascular Training Programs: Challenges, Responsibilities and Opportunities, Gaby Weissman, James A. Arrighi, Naomi F. Botkin, Julie B. Damp, Friederike K. Keating, Venu Menon, Lisa J. Rose-Jones, Harsimran S. Singh, Victor Soukoulis, and Andrew M. Kates
HIV-1 did not contribute to the 2019-nCoV genome, Chuan Xiao, Xiaojun Li, Shuying Liu, Yongming Sang, Shou-Jiang Gao, and Feng Gao
Serological Analysis Reveals an Imbalanced IgG Subclass Composition Associated with COVID-19 Disease Severity [preprint], Jennifer L. Yates, Ejemel Monir, Qi Li, Yan Wang, and William T. Lee
A rapid, sensitive, and reproducible in vivo PBMC humanized murine model for determining therapeutic-related cytokine release syndrome, Chunting Ye, Hongyuan Yang, Mingshan Cheng, Leonard D. Shultz, Dale L. Greiner, Michael A. Brehm, and James G. Keck
Reinventing Electronic Health Records During COVID-19: Better Patient Data and Faster Research by Restructuring Electronic Health Record Systems, John Yeh and Mary J. Yeh
Balancing Science and Art in Medicine: COVID-19 and the Necessary Humanistic Shift in Medical Care, Mary J. Yeh and John Yeh
Structural and Functional Analysis of the D614G SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Variant, Leonid Yurkovetskiy, Thomas Nyalile, Yetao Wang, William E. Diehl, Ann Dauphin, Claudia Carbone, Kristen Veinotte, Shawn B Egri, James B. Munro, Pardis C. Sabeti, Christos A. Kyratsous, Natalya V. Dudkina, Kuang Shen, and Jeremy Luban
SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein variant D614G increases infectivity and retains sensitivity to antibodies that target the receptor binding domain [preprint], Leonid Yurkovetskiy, Thomas Nyalile, Yetao Wang, William E. Diehl, Ann Dauphin, Claudia Carbone, Kristen Veinotte, Shawn B. Egri, Pardis C. Sabeti, Christos Kyratsous, James B. Munro, Kuang Shen, and Jeremy Luban
SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Detected in Specific Cell Subsets across Tissues, Carly G. K. Ziegler, Yuming Cao, Zhiru Guo, Jennifer P. Wang, Robert W. Finberg, Manuel Garber, Alex K. Shalek, Jose Ordovas-Montanes, and HCA Lung Biological Network
Expecting the unexpected: COVID-19 in Kidney Transplant Recipients within United Network for Organ Sharing Region 1, Asha Zimmerman, Kenneth A. Bodziak, and Nicole M. Theodoropoulos