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Successful recovery of COVID-19-associated recurrent diarrhea and gastrointestinal hemorrhage using convalescent plasma
- Source :
- Military Medical Research, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2020), Military Medical Research
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- BMC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background Gastrointestinal symptoms are not rare among coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, but there have been no reports regarding convalescent plasma therapy for the recovery of gastrointestinal problems in COVID-19 patients. Case presentation We present two cases of patients with COVID-19-associated recurrent diarrhea and positive fecal occult blood who successfully recovered after a one-time convalescent plasma administration. Conclusion When COVID-19 patients develop recurrent or refractory gastrointestinal symptoms and fail to respond to the available treatment, alternative therapy with convalescent plasma administration may be considered.
- Subjects :
- Diarrhea
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Convalescent plasma
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Alternative therapy
Pneumonia, Viral
Taiwan
Case Report
SARS-CoV-2 virus
Severity of Illness Index
Gastroenterology
Sampling Studies
Gastrointestinal symptoms
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Refractory
Recurrence
Gastrointestinal problems
Internal medicine
Severity of illness
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics
COVID-19 Serotherapy
Aged
lcsh:R5-920
lcsh:Military Science
business.industry
lcsh:U
Fecal occult blood
Immunization, Passive
COVID-19
Recurrent diarrhea
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Treatment Outcome
030104 developmental biology
Female
Coronavirus Infections
Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
business
lcsh:Medicine (General)
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20549369
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Military Medical Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3db4aff1cbfc8589bfe4934e746bac32