Background: Gastrointestinal symptoms are not rare among coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) patients, but there have been no reports regarding convalescent plasma therapy for the recovery of gastrointestinal problems ...Background: Gastrointestinal symptoms are not rare among coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) patients, but there have been no reports regarding convalescent plasma therapy for the recovery of gastrointestinal problems in COVID-19 patients.Case presentation: We present two cases of patients with COVID-19-associated recurrent diarrhea and positive fecal occult blood who successfully recovered after a one-time convalescent plasma administration.Conclusion: When COVID-19 patients develop recurrent or refractory gastrointestinal symptoms and fail to respond to the available treatment, alternative therapy with convalescent plasma administration may be considered.展开更多
基金supported by the Key Foundation of Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital (2020 [18])Key Research&Development Program of Jiangsu Province (BE2018713)+3 种基金Medical Innovation Project of Logistics Service (18JS005)the Foundation of Jiangsu Population Association (JSPA2019017)Medical Science and Technology Development FoundationNanjing Department of Health (YKK18179)。
文摘Background: Gastrointestinal symptoms are not rare among coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) patients, but there have been no reports regarding convalescent plasma therapy for the recovery of gastrointestinal problems in COVID-19 patients.Case presentation: We present two cases of patients with COVID-19-associated recurrent diarrhea and positive fecal occult blood who successfully recovered after a one-time convalescent plasma administration.Conclusion: When COVID-19 patients develop recurrent or refractory gastrointestinal symptoms and fail to respond to the available treatment, alternative therapy with convalescent plasma administration may be considered.
