10 January 2022>: Articles
A Report on the First 7 Sequential Patients Treated Within the C-Reactive Protein Apheresis in COVID (CACOV) Registry
Unusual clinical course, Unusual or unexpected effect of treatment
Christian Schumann * , Franz Heigl B , Imanuel J. Rohrbach B , Ahmed Sheriff A , Lutz Wagner B , Florian Wagner C , Jan Torzewski **DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.935263
Am J Case Rep 2022; 23:e935263
Figure 2. (A–G) CRP levels during hospital stay. In each patient, CRP levels (reference range 0.00–5.00 mg/L) were highly elevated on admission. In patients 1, 3, and 7, they slightly decreased until the next day, most likely due to immediate prednisolone treatment. With each CRP apheresis session via peripheral (blue columns) or central venous access/Shaldon catheter (red columns), however, CRP levels markedly decreased in each patient and normalized during the hospital stay. Notably, CRP apheresis was continued during bacterial superinfection. Gray shadows: antibiotic treatment.