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Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río
On-line version ISSN 1561-3194
Abstract
CUELLO CARBALLO, Martha Beatriz; DIAZ ALFONSO, Humbelina and ORDONEZ ALVAREZ, Lázaro Yoan. The only severely-ill COVID-19 patient reported in Pinar del Río. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.5 Epub Nov 24, 2020. ISSN 1561-3194.
Introduction:
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is a threat to global public health; with the most negative effect on patients with comorbidities and weak health status.
Clinical case:
a 59-year-old, white skinned, female patient with personal pathological history of high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus type II, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ex-smoker with confirmed positive PCR-RT (COVID-19 carrier), presented acute inflammatory pneumopathy as a complication and satisfactory evolution. Without a precise source of infection, all contacts were isolated, they underwent to studies and resulted negative to COVID-19.
Conclusions:
with this case report it is concluded that this pandemic is a challenge for the scientific community because there is not a specific treatment against SARSCoV-2. Nevertheless, Cuba makes use of its protocols of treatment where diverse medicines are included; which have demonstrated effectiveness in the control of the disease, achieving a satisfactory clinical evolution of several critical patients.
Keywords : COVID-19; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; PATIENTS; HEMATOLOGY; LABORATORY TEST; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TRACHEOTOMY; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY.