Plovdiv Doctors Saved Seriously Ill COVID-19 Patient With New Approach – Hospitals

An extremely serious patient with coronavirus was rescued in the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit of COVID-19 patients at Medline Central Hospital with a new therapeutic approach. The treatment was performed by the team in the room under the direction of director Dr. Stefan Vassilev and consultant Dr. Chavdar Botev, a leading hematologist with 30 years of experience treating thrombotic microangiopathies.

In fact, this was our last attempt to save the 55-year-old woman, whom COVID-19 caused a life-threatening vascular thrombosis, leading to intubation, Dr. Botev told Maritsa.

Remember that all therapies, without the use of remdesivir, throughout the world, and not only in our country, are experimental, so each one is approved by the hospital’s medical ethics committee.

“Dr. Vassilev invited me because the patient had developed thrombotic microangiopathy. The platelet drop was 50% per day, the lactate dehydrogenase had increased, which caused the blockage of blood vessels in important organs: heart, kidneys, brain First we administered a high dose of drug for platelet lysis. Then we put a surfactant on it, and finally we did plasmapheresis, “says the hematologist.

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As a result of the constant application of the three most modern and promising treatment methods, in 5 days the composition of the blood is normalized, and the patient’s condition begins to improve. Dr. Botev assures that the therapy of coronavirus patients with thrombotic microangiopathy plasmapheresis does not cause brain damage, which is found in 53% of the seriously ill and intubated. All three methods used in the Respiratory Intensive Care Department of COVID-19 patients in the hospital gave an excellent result for the 55-year-old woman. The methods are in the process of clinical investigation, but so far they appear to be very promising.

According to Dr. Botev, applied correctly in the specified sequence, they guarantee fantastic results.