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A patient affected by critical COVID-19 pneumonia, successfully treated with convalescent plasma
Behzad Einollahi1, Luca Cegolon2, Hassan Abolghasemi3
1Nephrology and Urology Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:
We present a critically ill patient affected by COVID-19, whose chest computed tomography (CT) scan featured lung consolidations and severe patchy ground-glass opacitie. On day 3 since hospital admission the patient was placed on convalescent plasma treatment. A combined treatment with supportive care, hemoperfusion and convalescent plasma successfully managed to save the patient's life. Convalescent plasma probably contributed to heal this patient and should always be considered in the management of critically ill COVID-19 cases.
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