Caring for patients with rare diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic
| Autor: | Faisal Almajed, Nimer Mehyar, Majid Alfadhel, Bandar Alghanem, Mohamed Boudjelal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
COVID-19 Vaccines Vulnerability Disease Microbiology Pharmacotherapy Rare Diseases Virology pandemic COVID-19 rare diseases anti-viral therapy MERS-CoV vaccines Pandemic medicine Humans Intensive care medicine business.industry Social distance General Medicine COVID-19 Drug Treatment Infectious Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Etiology Parasitology Patient Care business Curfew Cytokine Release Syndrome Rare disease |
| Zdroj: | Journal of infection in developing countries, 15(4):450-462 |
| ISSN: | 1972-2680 |
| Popis: | Rare diseases frequently attack and weaken the immune system, increasing the patient’s vulnerability to develop severe conditions after viral infections, such as COVID-19. Many patients with rare diseases also suffer from mental retardation and disability. These rare disease phenotypes do not emerge in older people who are susceptible to COVID-19 infection, but present at a very young age or at birth. These factors must be taken in consideration when caring for this vulnerable patient population during a pandemic, such as COVID-19. Patients with a rare disease have to take their regular medication continuously to control their condition and frequently, the medications, directly or indirectly, affect their immune system. It is important for this patient population, if infected with COVID-19 or another severe form of infection, to adjust the treatment protocol by specialists, in consultation with their own medical team. Special awareness and educational programs, understandable for mentally retarded patients, must be developed to educate them about social distancing, curfew, sanitization, and sensitization to the disease and quarantine. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance to reconsider the care required by patients with a rare disease during a pandemic or disaster, a program that should be adopted by the World Health Organization and governmental institutions for consideration. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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