Risk-adapted Treatment Strategy For COVID-19 Patients

Background: There are no clear expert consensus or guidelines on how to treat 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The objective of this study is to investigate the short-term effect of risk-adapted treatment strategy on patients with COVID-19. Methods: We collected the medical records of 55 COVID-19 patients for analysis. We divided these patients into mild, moderate and severe groups, and risk-adapted treatment approaches were given according to the illness severity. Results: Twelve patients were in mild group and 22 were in moderate group (non-severe group, n = 34), and 21 patients were in severe group. At the end of the first two weeks after admission, clinical manifestations had completely despeared in 31(91.2%)patients in non-severe group, and 18(85.7%) patients in severe group (p = 0.85). Both groups had a satisfied chest CT imaging recovery, which includes 22(64.7%) patients in non-severe group and 12(57.1%) patients in severe group recovered at least 50% of the whole leisions in the first week, and 28(82.4%) and 16(76.2%) recovered at least 75% in the second week, respectively. There were no significant differences in SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid negativity (p = 0.92). There were also no significant differences in the levels of SARS-CoV-2-IgM and IgG antibody production between the two groups (p = 0.13, 0.62). There were 45 cases were discharged from the hospital, and no patients died at the time of this clinical analysis. Conclusions: Risk-adapted treatment strategy was associated with significant clinical manifestations alleviation and clinical imaging recovery. In severe COVID-19 patients, early and short-term use of low-dose methylprednisolone was beneficial and did not delay SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid clearance and influence IgG antibody production..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:94

Enthalten in:

International Journal of Infectious Diseases - 94(2020), Seite 74-77

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Changcheng Zheng [VerfasserIn]
Jinquan Wang [VerfasserIn]
Hui Guo [VerfasserIn]
Zhaohui Lu [VerfasserIn]
Yan Ma [VerfasserIn]
Yuyou Zhu [VerfasserIn]
Daqing Xia [VerfasserIn]
Yinzhong Wang [VerfasserIn]
Hongliang He [VerfasserIn]
Jian Zhou [VerfasserIn]
Yong Wang [VerfasserIn]
Mingming Fei [VerfasserIn]
Yihong Yin [VerfasserIn]
Mao Zheng [VerfasserIn]
Yehong Xu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antiviral treatment
COVID-19
Infectious and parasitic diseases
Low-dose corticosteroid
Novel coronavirus pneumonia
Risk-adapted treatment strategy

doi:

10.1016/j.ijid.2020.03.047

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DOAJ019712359