Three Novel COVID-19 Pneumonia Cases Successfully Treated With Lopinavir/Ritonavir

Following the first case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov-2), in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, it has spread worldwide. An outbreak in Japan occurred on a cruise ship, and this was followed by community-acquired COVID-19. H...

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Autores principales: Wada, Tatsuhiko, Shimode, Kosuke, Hoshiyama, Takayuki, Takayama, Yoko, Yamaoka, Kunihiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7248319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32574332
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2020.00241
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Sumario:Following the first case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov-2), in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, it has spread worldwide. An outbreak in Japan occurred on a cruise ship, and this was followed by community-acquired COVID-19. Herein, we report three cases of COVID-19 that presented pneumonia following admission to Kitasato University Hospital. Patients were admitted based on the positive result of real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests for COVID-19 nucleic acid. All patients were diagnosed as suffering from non-severe COVID-19 pneumonia and were successfully treated with Lopinavir/Ritonavir (LPV/r). LPV/r could be an option for treating non-severe COVID-19 pneumonia in general and even in elderly patients.

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