Regarding pandemics: Ibn Jatima from Almería anticipates the physiopathological concept of multi-organ failure in the 14th century
| Autor: | M. Herrera Carranza |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Fever Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Multiple Organ Failure Context (language use) Plague (disease) Models Biological Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Phlebotomy Pandemic Medicine Humans Social Change Pandemics Inflammation Plague biology business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Oxygen transport COVID-19 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Environmental ethics General Medicine biology.organism_classification Multi organ Almeria History Medieval 030228 respiratory system Medicine Arabic Spain Respiratory Physiological Phenomena business |
| Zdroj: | Medicina intensiva. 45(6) |
| ISSN: | 2173-5727 |
| Popis: | In 1348, a pandemic known as Black Death devastated humanity and changed social, economic and geopolitical world order, as is the current case with SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The doctor of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, Ibn-Jatima from Almeria, wrote "Treatise on the Plague", in which it may be found epidemiological and clinical similarities between both plagues. In the context of Greco-Arab medicine, he discovered respiratory and contact contagion of Pestis and attributed its physiopathology to a lack of pulmonary cooling of the innate heat, generated in the heart and carried by the blood humor. The process described was equivalent to the oxygen transport system. Furthermore, it was supposed to generate toxic residues, such as free radicals, leading to an irreversible multiple organ failure (MOF), considered a mortality factor as in Covid-19. Due to its similitude, it would be the first antecedent of the MOF physiopathological concept, a finding that enriches the scientific and historical heritage of our clinical specialty. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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