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Editor, Senior Moderator
Infect Disord Drug Targets
. 2021 Jul 26.
doi: 10.2174/1871526521666210726150435. Online ahead of print.
Current Treatments and Therapeutic Options for COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Review
Esmaeil Mehraeen[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Zeinab Najafi[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Bagher Hayati[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Mohammad Javaherian[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sajad Rahimi[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Omid Dadras[SUP] 5 [/SUP], SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Maryam Ghadimi[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Jean-Marc Sabatier[SUP] 7 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Introduction: COVID-19 is the third rising epidemic in the 21st century that quickly turned into a worldwide pandemic. Many clinical studies have been achieved to investigate treatments to confrontation of COVID-19. Therefore, we conducted a systematic reviewto describe the recent treatment strategies to treat COVID-19 patients.
Methods: A systematic search was performed in the databases of PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Science direct, Up to date, and Web of Science using the keywords of Coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, Treatment, Medicine, Therapy, Intervention, Drug, Medications, and Cure.
Results: We included 58 studies including 38 articles (eleven reviews, ten editorial documents, three case reports, one mix method, one cohort study,) and 19 published clinical trials. Review of studies showed that Lopinavir/Ritonavir (n=16), Remdesivir (n=13), Convalescent plasma (n=11), Chloroquine (n=11), Ribavirin (n=9), Hydroxychloroquine sulfate (n=8), Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) (n=8), and Arbidol (n=7), were the most frequently used therapies used to treat COVID-19 patients.
Conclusion: In the absence of definitive treatment protocols, recently proposed approaches appear to be an effective therapy for accelerating the recovery of COVID-19 patients. Some of these treatments may have been in the early stages of testing. However, future preclinical and clinical trials are warranted to validate findings.
Keywords: Antiviral; COVID-19; COVID-19 Therapy; Coronavirus; Intervention; Medicine; Treatment.
. 2021 Jul 26.
doi: 10.2174/1871526521666210726150435. Online ahead of print.
Current Treatments and Therapeutic Options for COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Review
Esmaeil Mehraeen[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Zeinab Najafi[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Bagher Hayati[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Mohammad Javaherian[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Sajad Rahimi[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Omid Dadras[SUP] 5 [/SUP], SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Maryam Ghadimi[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Jean-Marc Sabatier[SUP] 7 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 34313204
- DOI: 10.2174/1871526521666210726150435
Abstract
Introduction: COVID-19 is the third rising epidemic in the 21st century that quickly turned into a worldwide pandemic. Many clinical studies have been achieved to investigate treatments to confrontation of COVID-19. Therefore, we conducted a systematic reviewto describe the recent treatment strategies to treat COVID-19 patients.
Methods: A systematic search was performed in the databases of PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Science direct, Up to date, and Web of Science using the keywords of Coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Novel Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, Treatment, Medicine, Therapy, Intervention, Drug, Medications, and Cure.
Results: We included 58 studies including 38 articles (eleven reviews, ten editorial documents, three case reports, one mix method, one cohort study,) and 19 published clinical trials. Review of studies showed that Lopinavir/Ritonavir (n=16), Remdesivir (n=13), Convalescent plasma (n=11), Chloroquine (n=11), Ribavirin (n=9), Hydroxychloroquine sulfate (n=8), Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) (n=8), and Arbidol (n=7), were the most frequently used therapies used to treat COVID-19 patients.
Conclusion: In the absence of definitive treatment protocols, recently proposed approaches appear to be an effective therapy for accelerating the recovery of COVID-19 patients. Some of these treatments may have been in the early stages of testing. However, future preclinical and clinical trials are warranted to validate findings.
Keywords: Antiviral; COVID-19; COVID-19 Therapy; Coronavirus; Intervention; Medicine; Treatment.