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Managing COVID-19 infection in a Young Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient Successfully With Antiviral and Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor: Playing on a Sticky Wicket
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected healthcare systems throughout the world. Though all domains of healthcare are busy battling this deadly pandemic, oncology care has taken a drastic hit due to cancer patients being immunocompromised and predisposed to acquire COVID-19 infection. Patient...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8380461/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34434681 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16589 |
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author | Talwar, Dhruv Kumar, Sunil Acharya, Sourya Khanna, Shivam Hulkoti, Vidyashree |
author_facet | Talwar, Dhruv Kumar, Sunil Acharya, Sourya Khanna, Shivam Hulkoti, Vidyashree |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected healthcare systems throughout the world. Though all domains of healthcare are busy battling this deadly pandemic, oncology care has taken a drastic hit due to cancer patients being immunocompromised and predisposed to acquire COVID-19 infection. Patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia are at greater risk of acquiring Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2(SARS CoV 2) infection along with developing complications related to COVID-19 due to the immunosuppression caused by the malignancy, as well as the high-intensity chemotherapy provided in acute myeloid leukemia. We report a case of 28-year-old male who was a known case of acute myeloid leukemia diagnosed three months ago, presented with high-grade fever with cough and breathlessness. Nasopharyngeal swab of the patient for SARS CoV2 by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction turned out to be positive. The patient was managed successfully with steroids, remdesavir, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, and other supportive measures, and was discharged in a stable condition. |
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spelling | pubmed-83804612021-08-24 Managing COVID-19 infection in a Young Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient Successfully With Antiviral and Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor: Playing on a Sticky Wicket Talwar, Dhruv Kumar, Sunil Acharya, Sourya Khanna, Shivam Hulkoti, Vidyashree Cureus Infectious Disease The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected healthcare systems throughout the world. Though all domains of healthcare are busy battling this deadly pandemic, oncology care has taken a drastic hit due to cancer patients being immunocompromised and predisposed to acquire COVID-19 infection. Patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia are at greater risk of acquiring Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2(SARS CoV 2) infection along with developing complications related to COVID-19 due to the immunosuppression caused by the malignancy, as well as the high-intensity chemotherapy provided in acute myeloid leukemia. We report a case of 28-year-old male who was a known case of acute myeloid leukemia diagnosed three months ago, presented with high-grade fever with cough and breathlessness. Nasopharyngeal swab of the patient for SARS CoV2 by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction turned out to be positive. The patient was managed successfully with steroids, remdesavir, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, and other supportive measures, and was discharged in a stable condition. Cureus 2021-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8380461/ /pubmed/34434681 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16589 Text en Copyright © 2021, Talwar 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. |
spellingShingle | Infectious Disease Talwar, Dhruv Kumar, Sunil Acharya, Sourya Khanna, Shivam Hulkoti, Vidyashree Managing COVID-19 infection in a Young Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient Successfully With Antiviral and Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor: Playing on a Sticky Wicket |
title | Managing COVID-19 infection in a Young Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient Successfully With Antiviral and Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor: Playing on a Sticky Wicket |
title_full | Managing COVID-19 infection in a Young Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient Successfully With Antiviral and Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor: Playing on a Sticky Wicket |
title_fullStr | Managing COVID-19 infection in a Young Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient Successfully With Antiviral and Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor: Playing on a Sticky Wicket |
title_full_unstemmed | Managing COVID-19 infection in a Young Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient Successfully With Antiviral and Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor: Playing on a Sticky Wicket |
title_short | Managing COVID-19 infection in a Young Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patient Successfully With Antiviral and Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor: Playing on a Sticky Wicket |
title_sort | managing covid-19 infection in a young acute myeloid leukemia patient successfully with antiviral and granulocyte colony stimulating factor: playing on a sticky wicket |
topic | Infectious Disease |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8380461/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34434681 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16589 |
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