Therapeutic Management of COVID-19 Patients

Autor: Abdessamad Aglagane, Abdelaati El Khiat, Ahmed Draoui, Lahcen Tamegart, Halima Gamrani, Youssef Ait Hamdan, Radouane El Fari
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Handbook of Research on Pathophysiology and Strategies for the Management of COVID-19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8225-1.ch013
Popis: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARSCov-2) or COVID-19 is a pandemic that appeared in December 2019 in China and which is an RNA virus. It gave rise to a major health crisis at the start of 2020, with numerous hospitalizations. It was quickly important to understand the pathophysiology of this viral attack on the human body in order to be able to develop treatment. However, there is no vaccine or effective therapeutic agent against SARS-CoV-2. Most of the therapeutic strategies used to deal with this virus come from the work of previous epidemics of SARS, and other influenza viruses, such as antiviral therapies (chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine), adjuvant therapies by combining antivirals with drugs. Antibiotics or immunostimulants (vitamins C, Dm and Zinc, etc,) and several other therapies to be used depending on the region.
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