Patients with Prolonged Positivity of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Benefit from Convalescent Plasma Therapy : A Retrospective Study

Convalescent plasma therapy has been implemented in a few cases of severe coronavirus disease 2019. No report about convalescent plasma therapy in treating patients with prolonged positivity of SARS-CoV-2 RNA has been published. In this study, we conducted a retrospective observational study in 27 patients with prolonged positivity of SARS-CoV-2 RNA, the clinical benefit of convalescent plasma therapy were analyzed. qRT-PCR test of SARS-CoV-2 RNA turned negative (≤ 7 days) in a part of patients (early negative group, n = 15) after therapy, others (late negative group, n = 12) turned negative in more than 7 days. Pulmonary imaging improvement was confirmed in 7 patients in early negative group and 8 in late negative group after CP therapy. Viral load decreased in early negative group compared with late negative group at day 3, 5, 7 after implementing convalescent plasma therapy. Patients in early negative group had a shorter median length of hospital stay. In conclusion, convalescent plasma therapy might help eliminate virus and shorten length of hospital stay in patients with prolonged positivity of SARS-CoV-2 RNA.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

Virologica Sinica - 35(2020), 6 vom: 31. Dez., Seite 768-775

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wu, Yongran [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Ke [VerfasserIn]
Ruan, Lianguo [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xiaobo [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jiancheng [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Jiqian [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Shangwen [VerfasserIn]
Ren, Lehao [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Lu [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Chaolin [VerfasserIn]
Shang, You [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Viral
Convalescent plasma therapy
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Journal Article
Observational Study
Prolonged positivity
RNA, Viral
SARS-CoV-2

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 15.02.2021

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s12250-020-00281-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31438832X