Francesco Robert Burkert

TL;DR: HyperCKemia occurs in a similar frequency in COVID‐19 and influenza infection, and CK levels strongly correlate with disease severity and markers of inflammation.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of sex hormones on disease severity and immune activation in 377 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infections hospitalized at the Innsbruck University Hospital between February and December 2020 were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated four commercially available tests in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 and found that two out of four antigen tests correctly identified subjects with high viral loads (Ct ≥ 25), and three out of the four tests detected more than 80% of subjects with a Ct ≥ 30, which is considered the threshold for infectivity.

TL;DR: Together, these data provide the first evidence that a high fat diet may be a risk factor for the development of IAV-associated cardiovascular damage and emphasises the need for further clinical research in this area.

TL;DR: A slight elevation of high sensitive Troponin-T serum levels is a common feature of patients with influenza, however increased hsTnT also highlights a higher risk for cardiac complications and fatal outcome.