A potential treatment regimen in SARS-CoV-2 patients
- Nezam Hadibarhaghtalab,
- Maryam Hadibarhaghtalab,
- Parisa Hosseinpour,
- Vahid Seifi
Abstract
In December 2019, the COVID-19 outbreak began in Wuhan, China, and soon
announced as a pandemic in March 2020 and Iran was no exception. Since
COVID-19 is a newly emerging disease, no definite treatment exists and
therapy is based upon supportive care. Many treatment regimens have been
proposed and some of which have shown promising results that may be
considered as the treatment of COVID-19 in the near future if confirmed
by further studies. As there is no gold standard for the treatment of
COVID-19 and many physicians in different countries prescribe a
combination of drugs, we prescribed a combination of drugs. based on the
above evidence to patients referring to our clinic. We monitored and
analyzed patients with mild to moderate symptoms with the inclusion
criteria of either confirmed COVID-19 cases by RT-PCR or had close
contact with confirmed cases having symptoms of headache, sore throat,
cough, diarrhea, unjustifiable symptoms in favor of vasculitis, and any
cutaneous manifestations which last for more than 5 days. A total of
thirty-three patients were included and then visited daily with their
vital parameters being recorded directly. All thirty-three patients
recovered from the disease with no complication after receiving the
treatment and in follow up visits. Although a definite treatment for
SARS-CoV-2 still remains a matter of debate, this treatment regimen
showed effective treatment in patients with mild to moderate symptoms.
Undoubtedly, further researches and papers are needed to be done to
prove the effectiveness of this treatment regimen.