Abstract:Increasing evidence documents characteristic morphological alterations of the white cells detectable on the peripheral venous blood smear in patients with Sars-Cov2 infection, 1 moreover many of these observations seem to indicate a prognostic correlation between these and patients' outcomes. 1,2 Recently, several studies highlighted the central role of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in COVID-19 pathogenesis and there are numerous evidence of an increase in smudge cells in patients with severe Sars-Cov2… Show more
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