The experimental therapy involves transfusing the antibody-rich blood serum of recovered COVID-19 patients into people who are battling the coronavirus.
The study notes that the most common complication of convalescent plasma therapy is transfusion associated circulatory overload , which occurs when a patient cannot tolerate the increased blood volume that results from the transfusion of plasma. Researchers were also concerned about the possibility that the antibodies infused into patients could lead to the formation of new infections.
One of those patients was Claudia Garcenot, a New York City woman who contracted COVID-19 about six weeks ago.Garcenot is the chief nursing officer at Mount Sinai Brooklyn, a bustling hospital hit by an influx of coronavirus patients throughout the month of March. She received two doses of convalescent plasma April 5, a process that took four hours. Just over a day later, she woke up in the morning feeling like a different person.
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