A REVIEW ON PLASMA THERAPY OF COVID-19
Dr. D. Rama Bhrama Reddy*, K. Malleswari, R. Vinuthan, E. Ashok and S. Teja
ABSTRACT
Abstract Coronavirus 2019 has created a big threat to the modern world. Many researchers and scientists had taken
the burden of finding information about this entity, its structure, its transmission, and also about the treatment that
can be given to individuals infected by it. There has been use of different medicines at different times
simultaneously researching about them, starting with only symptomatic and supportive treatment then antimalarial
agents like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, then going to favipavir and other antivirals, then came the use of
vaccines and also convalescent plasma therapy for COVID-19. The most advanced convalescent plasma use for
the treating coronavirus. Using plasma of patients who have remitted from this disease and putting it into those
individuals who are dealing with the disease or are critically ill for improvement of their health status. This
treatment has been used for many other diseases too and has been proven efficacious. So, this technique is being
used and studied for coronavirus 2019 as well. There have been set certain criteria for those who can donate
plasma and also criteria for the recipients of this technique. Also, there can be adverse reactions or even side
effects with this, like transfusion-related acute lung injury, so they should also be kept in mind during treatment
with this method. So, though there are many methods to date to treat these individuals but one of the latest ones is
using plasma, which is proven to be efficacious but still many studies are under process for the same.
Keywords: Corona virus, sars-cov2, convalescent plasma therapy, covid 19.
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