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This fibrotic state may be provoked by cytokines such as interleukin-6 (IL-6) and transforming growth factor-, which have been implicated in the development of pulmonary fibrosis6,56,57,58 and may predispose to bacterial colonization and subsequent infection59,60,61. J. Am. Authors Charles Tate 1 , Luay Demashkieh 2 , Wael Hakmeh 3 Affiliations 1 Emergency Medicine, Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, USA. Int. Sosnowski, K., Lin, F., Mitchell, M. L. & White, H. Early rehabilitation in the intensive care unit: an integrative literature review. 18, 22152219 (2020). Secondary causes of tachycardia, such as anemia, thyroid pathology, pregnancy, infection, or pulmonary embolism, were investigated, and patients with a systemic condition justifying tachycardia were excluded from the study analysis. found that IST was the most common cardiovascular complication in a cohort of 121 patients with SARS. Tang, N., Li, D., Wang, X. 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Gersh, Matteo Di Nardo, Grace van Leeuwen, Vito Marco Ranieri, Marcos Felipe Falco Sobral, Antonio Roazzi, Renata Maria Toscano Barreto Lyra Nogueira, Sarah Halawa, Soni S. Pullamsetti, Magdi H. Yacoub, Valentina O. Puntmann, Simon Martin, Eike Nagel, Nature Medicine Front. Severe COVID-19, similar to other critical illnesses, causes catabolic muscle wasting, feeding difficulties and frailty, each of which is associated with an increased likelihood of poor outcome36. At the acute stage, sinus tachycardia may reflect systemic hyper-sympathetic tone. https://doi.org/10.7326/M20-6306 (2020). Med. D.W.L. J. Med. J. Inappropriate sinus tachycardia If you have sinus tachycardia with no known cause, it's called inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST). Lancet Respir. COVID-19 vaccine injured doctors are finally starting to speak up.and they are shocked that the medical establishment abandons them. JCI Insight 5, e138999 (2020). 2). J. Clin. Rev. Dis. J. 1 /1 people found this helpful. 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