Some hospitalized COVID-19 patients are beginning to receive convalescent plasma transfusions to help combat the virus. UC Davis Medical Center used the treatment on its first two COVID-19 patients ...

A 72-year-old woman was hospitalized with severe COVID-19 disease, 33 days after the onset of symptoms. She was suffering a prolonged deteriorating illness, with severe pneumonia and a high risk of ...

INFUSION of arginine monochloride is followed by a rise in the plasma concentration of human growth hormone in normal subjects. 1,2 The infusion is accompanied by modest changes in plasma glucose ...

Doctors in China say they have preliminary but promising evidence that blood plasma taken from recovered coronavirus patients can be injected into those who are more seriously ill — and aid remarkably ...

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blood bags Researchers examined the safety, tolerability, and feasibility of young plasma infusion in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease dementia in an Alzheimer's symptom amelioration ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. COVID-19 research is advancing at an unprecedented speed, but one strategy doctors are leaning on to treat ...

An elderly man critically ill from the coronavirus is among the first few patients in Milwaukee to receive a plasma transfusion in hopes that the antibodies from someone who has recovered from ...

Thirteen patients with liver disease and an abnormal prothrombin time refractory to vitamin K therapy were studied (Tables 1 and 2). None of the patients were actively bleeding, and none had received ...

NHS Blood and Transplant, Queen Mary University London, and Barts Health NHS Trust have collaborated on a new study published in the journal Critical Care. The study recruited 909 major traumatic ...

Background. Ebola virus (EBOV) neutralizing antibody in plasma may reduce viral load following administration of plasma to patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD), but measurement of these antibodies ...