Prolonged SARS-CoV2 Viral Shedding in an Elderly Patient

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been devastating to the elderly population, especially due to a lack of clear guidelines for treatment. Corticosteroids have been the mainstay in treating the cytokine storm caused by the virus. In the past, prolonged viral shedding of Middle East Respiratory...

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Autores principales: Jariwal, Roopam, Raza, Nadia, Valdez, Michael, Aboeed, Ayham, Garcia-Pacheco, Ralph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8213488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34159030
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15128
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Raza, Nadia
Valdez, Michael
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Garcia-Pacheco, Ralph
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description Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been devastating to the elderly population, especially due to a lack of clear guidelines for treatment. Corticosteroids have been the mainstay in treating the cytokine storm caused by the virus. In the past, prolonged viral shedding of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was noted in patients treated with high-dose corticosteroids. It is unclear whether this also holds true for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV2). To our knowledge, this case report highlights the longest reported disease course of SARS-CoV2, lasting approximately 210 days.
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spelling pubmed-82134882021-06-21 Prolonged SARS-CoV2 Viral Shedding in an Elderly Patient Jariwal, Roopam Raza, Nadia Valdez, Michael Aboeed, Ayham Garcia-Pacheco, Ralph Cureus Internal Medicine Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been devastating to the elderly population, especially due to a lack of clear guidelines for treatment. Corticosteroids have been the mainstay in treating the cytokine storm caused by the virus. In the past, prolonged viral shedding of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was noted in patients treated with high-dose corticosteroids. It is unclear whether this also holds true for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV2). To our knowledge, this case report highlights the longest reported disease course of SARS-CoV2, lasting approximately 210 days. Cureus 2021-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8213488/ /pubmed/34159030 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15128 Text en Copyright © 2021, Jariwal et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Prolonged SARS-CoV2 Viral Shedding in an Elderly Patient
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