At the epicenter of severe acute respiratory syndrome

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

ten, and contained information relevant for clinicians. Chapter 26, which covered positron emission tomography (PET), was surprisingly thin, especially given the robust amount of recently published information on PET in lung cancer diagnosis and staging. More information on PET technique, examples of PET/computed-tomography fusion images, and clinically-oriented recommendations (eg, when should...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a new clinical entity which was first observed in Guangdong, China at the end of 2002. Since then there have been more than 7000 probable cases worldwide and more than 800 deaths. The difficulties of managing patients with this potentially fatal condition have been compounded by a lack of data relating to the condition and its highly infectious nature...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome vs. the Middle East respiratory syndrome.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review compares the clinical features, laboratory aspects and treatment options of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). RECENT FINDINGS Bats are the natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses (CoVs) and are likely the reservoir of MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Although a small number of camels have been found to hav...

[Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)].

Several cases of life threatening respiratory disease with no identifiable cause were reported from Guangdong Province, China; these were soon followed by reports from many other countries. The disease was named as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). A novel coronavirus, isolated from the respiratory secretions of patients, has been implicated in the causation of SARS. The modes of transm...