Treatment of a case of COVID-19 by intravenous immunoglobulin

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. As of today, no specific treatment has been found COVID-19. İntravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a widely used therapy to prevent life-threatening infections in patients with primary and secon...

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Autores principales: Çolak, Mustafa, Kalemci, Serdar, Sarıhan, Aydın
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7834104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33359936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2020.12.003
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Sumario:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. As of today, no specific treatment has been found COVID-19. İntravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a widely used therapy to prevent life-threatening infections in patients with primary and secondary immune deficiencies and autoimmune/inflammatory conditions. IVIG administration could be beneficial in the treatment of patients with severe COVID-19. In this respect, this presentation aimed to report a case of COVID-19 treated with IVIG.

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