{"id":8987,"date":"2020-08-11T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:08:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:08:50","slug":"convalescent-plasma-a-clutch-at-straws-in-covid-19-management-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/convalescent-plasma-a-clutch-at-straws-in-covid-19-management-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Convalescent Plasma a Clutch at Straws in COVID-19 Management! A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A systematic review (7 studies, 5,444\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the use of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">convalescent plasma therapy\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0patients with COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0reduces mortality (OR=0.44, 95% CI 0.25-0.77)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, increases viral clearance\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">11.29, 95% CI 4.9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">25.9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and improves clinical<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">condition<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">OR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2.06, 95% CI 0.8<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">4.9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sarkar et al. (Aug\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">10,<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a02020). Convalescent Plasma a Clutch at Straws in COVID-19 Management! A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Medical Virology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.26408\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.26408<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review (7 studies, 5,444\u00a0patients)\u00a0found\u00a0that\u00a0the use of\u00a0convalescent plasma therapy\u00a0in\u00a0patients with COVID-19\u00a0reduces mortality (OR=0.44, 95% CI 0.25-0.77), increases viral clearance\u00a0(OR=11.29, 95% CI 4.9&#8211;25.9),\u00a0and improves clinical\u00a0condition\u00a0(OR=2.06, 95% CI 0.8&#8211;4.9).\u00a0 Sarkar et al. (Aug\u00a010,\u00a02020). Convalescent Plasma a Clutch at Straws in COVID-19 Management! A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Medical Virology.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.26408\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/convalescent-plasma-a-clutch-at-straws-in-covid-19-management-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-8987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8988,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}