Convalescent Plasma Therapy In Blood Cancer Patients With COVID-19
by Pooja Shete on
February 15, 2021 at 12:37 PM
A new data showed that treatment with convalescent plasma improved the survival rate of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 who also had hematologic malignances that compromise the immune system.
Patients who received convalescent plasma from donors who had recovered from COVID-19 had a death rate of 13.3 percent when compared to 24.8 percent in patients who did not receive it.
The data is released by the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19).
The difference was more pronounced in patients admitted to intensive care units where patients treated with convalescent plasma had a death rate of 15.8 percent as compared to 46.9 percent for those who weren't.