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07 December 2020The San Salvatore hospital in L'Aquila, the structure most exposed to the surge in infections that has been affecting the province of L'Aquila for weeks, enters the map of Italian health facilities that have used hyperimmune plasma therapy in the fight against Covid- 19.



For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, a patient hospitalized in the hospital of the capital, following the positivity to the virus and the development of a serious form of bilateral interstitial pneumonia, was subjected to transfusion with hyperimmune plasma and now her conditions are improved.



It happened in the "Covid 2 Medicine" department, coordinated by Dr. Mariapia Iovenitti.

"The patient affected by the treatment is suffering from a concomitant autoimmune disease", explained Iovenitti - her disease is treated with drugs that block the production of antibodies and for this reason the patient is not able to independently develop a capable antibody response. to fight the reproduction of the virus and prevent the most serious consequences ". The therapy involves taking plasma, the liquid part of the blood, from people cured of Covid-19, who have therefore developed a strong immune response, and its subsequent transfusion in patients suffering from severe Covid-19 disease.



The first administration of hyperimmune plasma in the hospital in L'Aquila was made possible by the close synergy between the doctors of Covid 2 Medicine engaged in the front line in the treatment against the virus, and the San Salvatore Transfusion Medicine, directed by Anna Rughetti, who for some time started the collection of hyperimmune plasma in p

companies recovered from Covid-19.

Transfusion Medicine is working to create a "bank" of hyperimmune plasma, which can be used in the treatment of the most severe forms of disease.

The news of the first administration of hyperimmune plasma at San Salvatore is also an invitation to the large population of L'Aquila recovered from Covid-19 to donate hyperimmune plasma.

They are suitable for donating all people who have successfully overcome the disease, in whose blood, following a serological examination, neutralizing antibodies are present.