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Plasma Therapy Not Effective
Source : Indian Express

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Why in News ?

Plasma therapy on COVID-19 patients has not been found effective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death and is likely to be dropped from the clinical management guidelines.

  • The present guidelines allows off label use of plasma therapy
  • Especially at the stage of early moderate disease within seven days of the onset of symptoms
  • Can be done if there is availability of a high titre donor plasma.

Key Facts

  • Removing the use of convalescent plasma from the Clinical Guidance for Management of Adult COVID-19 Patients citing its ineffectiveness and inappropriate use in several cases.
  • Why it s dropping ?
    • The decision to remove it from the guidelines comes in the backdrop of some clinicians and scientists cautioning against the irrational and non-scientific use of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 in the country.
    • Public health professionals alleged that the current guidelines on plasma therapy are not based on existing evidence
    • Evidence that indicates a possible association between emergence of variants with lower susceptibility to neutralising antibodies in immuno-suppressed people given plasma therapy.
    • Convalescent plasma was not associated with a reduction in progression to severe COVID-19 based on large trial of 11,588 patients found.
    • Also Plasma trial in Argentina concluded that there is no significant difference.

Plasma Therapy for COVID antibodies from the blood of a patient who has recovered from COVID-19 are used to treat serious patients.

What is Plasma Therappy ?

  • Also known as convalescent plasma therapy.
  • Plasma the yellowish liquid part of the blood is extracted from a person who has recovered from the infection and injected into a patient who is suffering from that disease.
  • The plasma contains that antibodies that can help a patient fight the pathogen and recover from the disease.
  • In the case of COVID-19 a plasma donor should have recovered from the infection in around 28 days and should be in the age group of 18 to 60 years.

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