COVID-19 | Delhi hospital successfully treats two patients with monoclonal antibody
The two patients who were given the antibody therapy were a 36-year-old healthcare worker and an 80-year-old elderly with comorbidities.
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi has successfully used monoclonal antibody to treat two COVID-19 patients. The Delhi hospital had started using monoclonal antibody treatment from June 1.
The hospital authorities told news agency ANI: “Monoclonal antibody successfully used in two patients with fast progression of symptoms within first seven days have changed the outcome.”
One of the patients treated was a 36-year-old healthcare worker who had symptoms such as high-grade fever, cough, myalgia, severe weakness, leucopenia. The doctors administered REGCov2 (CASIRIVIMAB Plus IMDEVIMAB) to the patient on day six of the disease and the COVID-19 patient’s parameter improved within 12 hours and was discharged.
The monoclonal antibody treatment is commonly referred to as cocktail therapy. A cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies – which are laboratory-made proteins that mimic the body’s immune cells — called Casirivimab and Imdevimab marketed by Roche is used to prevent the fast progression of the disease.
The antibodies attach themselves to the protein spike of the Sars-CoV-2 virus and prevent its entry into the human cells.
