Persistently elevated complement alternative pathway biomarkers in COVID-19 correlate with hypoxemia and predict in-hospital mortality.

Med Microbiol Immunol · 2022 · PMC8761108 · PMID 35034207

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Extending these studies to the complement system, correlation analyses revealed that significantly elevated serum concentrations of C5a, Ba, and Bb were negatively associated with PaO 2 /FIO 2 in the COVID-19 patients on admission, with FD approaching significance (Table 2 ).

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