Abstract

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hydroxychloroquine is being prescribed by the doctors all over the world for the treatment as well as prevention of COVID-19 with varying results. As we know damage in severe COVID-19 disease occurs mainly via the immunological mechanism. There is an assumption that HCQ has immunomodulatory property and thus may have a beneficial role in severe COVID-19 disease. In this retrospective study, we describe our experience of using low dose of HCQ (200mg/day) in 27 hospitalized severe cases of COVID-19 disease. We found, though the use of HCQ resulted in improvements in chest X-rays, there was no significant reduction in the deaths in the cases where HCQ was used.

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Title
Is Immunomodulatory Property of Hydroxychloroquine Beneficial for Severe COVID-19? A Hospital Based Retrospective Observational Study
Author
Mahesh Prasad Mohanta; Behera, Debabrata; Das, Deben; Mishra, Prasant Kumar; Satapathy, Siddhartha; Patnaik, Lavina; Badapanda, Saroj; Prakash, Gayathri
Pages
27-30
Section
Original Articles
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Australian International Academic Centre PTY. Ltd (AIAC)
e-ISSN
22031413
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2535397463
Copyright
© 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.