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Comment
. 2020 Aug;95(8):E187-E188.
doi: 10.1002/ajh.25881. Epub 2020 Jun 20.

Circulating endothelial cells in COVID-19

Maria E Nizzoli  1 , Gabriele Merati  1 , Annamaria Tenore  2 , Cristina Picone  2 , Erica Consensi  2 , Luciano Perotti  3 , Virginia V Ferretti  4 , Margherita Sambo  5 , Antonio Di Sabatino  6 , Giorgio A Iotti  3   5 , Luca Arcaini  1   2 , Raffaele Bruno  5   7 , Mirko Belliato  3
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Comment

Circulating endothelial cells in COVID-19

Maria E Nizzoli et al. Am J Hematol. 2020 Aug.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

L.A. received advisory honoraria from Celgene, Gilead, Roche, Janssen‐Cilag, Verastem and research support from Gilead, all unrelated to this correspondence.

Figures

FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Circulating endothelial cells in 30 COVID‐19 patients and in six healthy subjects (Two COVID‐19 patients with CECs higher than 200 were omitted from figure)
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