The only severely-ill COVID-19 patient reported in Pinar del Río
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COVID-19, DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS, EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS, PATIENTS, HEMATOLOGY, LABORATORY TEST, RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL, TRACHEOTOMY, INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY.Abstract
Introduction: SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is a threat to global public health; with the most negative effect on patients with comorbidities and weak health status.
Clinical case: a 59-year-old, white skinned, female patient with personal pathological history of high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus type II, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ex-smoker with confirmed positive PCR-RT (COVID-19 carrier), presented acute inflammatory pneumopathy as a complication and satisfactory evolution. Without a precise source of infection, all contacts were isolated, they underwent to studies and resulted negative to COVID-19.
Conclusions: with this case report it is concluded that this pandemic is a challenge for the scientific community because there is not a specific treatment against SARSCoV-2. Nevertheless, Cuba makes use of its protocols of treatment where diverse medicines are included; which have demonstrated effectiveness in the control of the disease, achieving a satisfactory clinical evolution of several critical patients.
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