Dexamethasone may improve severe COVID-19 via ameliorating endothelial injury and inflammation: A preliminary pilot study

• Won-Young Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Won-Young Kim, Oh Joo Kweon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Oh Joo Kweon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Won-Young Kim, Oh Joo Kweon

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Min Jae Cha,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Moon Seong Baek,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Seong-Ho Choi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tobeservant@cau.ac.kr

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8108-2412

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