Petru Emil Muntean

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Is convalescent plasma therapy effective in coronavirus patients ?

The immune systems of COVID-19 survivors figured out how to combat and defeat the invading SARS-CoV-2 virus. Neutralizing antibodies are one kind of immunological front-line response. These...

03 April 2020 5,045 31 View

How can we differentiate between hay fever or pollen allergy related respiratory symptoms and COVID 19 infection?

Patients with COVID 19 usually have mild, flu-like symptoms, which are rather common and need to be distinguished from similar symptoms caused by common cold viruses and from allergic symptoms...

01 April 2020 2,952 7 View

What is the risk of getting COVID 19 from packages delivered through the postal system?

The New England Journal of Medicine reported that the causal agent of COVID 19 is able to persist for up to 24 hours on cardboard, in experimental settings.

01 April 2020 8,265 13 View

Is Alvesco (corticosteroid used to treat asthma) effective in treating COVID-19?

Checkout: 1.http://m.koreabiomed.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=7807. ; 2.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.987016v1 ;...

30 March 2020 5,859 9 View

After BCG vaccination, do you think will see a reduction in the prevalence and severity of coronavirus disease symptoms?

1.https://www.sciencealert.com/australia-is-trialling-a-tb-vaccine-for-coronavirus-and-health-workers-get-it-first/amp. 2....

29 March 2020 7,032 5 View

Are serologic tests (which detect antibodies against COVID 19 in the blood) useful ?

It takes time for the body’s immune system to generate antibodies against a specific pathogen, antibody tests may be negative early in the course of infection; also antibody tests sometimes have...

26 March 2020 2,919 5 View

Should patients with COVID 19 and asthma use their inhaled steroid medication?

Recent data is suggesting that steroids might increase the shedding of COVID 19 comes from treating hospitalized patients with systemic steroids just for the viral illness. The use of steroids...

26 March 2020 9,192 3 View

Is induced sputum collection recommended in COVID 19 patients ?

Because it is an aerosol generating procedure that poses substantial risk to patients and staff, bronchoscopy should have an extremely limited role in diagnosis of COVID-19 and only be considered...

26 March 2020 6,791 5 View

COVID 19: is CT scanning ready to answer a diagnostic call?

Chest X-ray is the first imaging method to diagnose COVID-19 coronavirus infection. If the clinical suspicion is high and the PCR or/and chest X-ray is normal, a chest CT is indicated. There is...

26 March 2020 2,038 4 View

Why COVID-19 is almost harmless to even newborn kids?

Children’s immune systems react in a less vigorous way and they don’t get that sick. The immune system of adults sometimes overreacts to those viruses and that makes them sick.

25 March 2020 5,957 13 View

Excessive use of hand sanitizing substances in the fight against COVID 19, hand dermatitis becomes both irritant and allergic. What can we do?

Irritant contact dermatitis can range from mild dryness to a severe reaction. It usually occurs on the hands with inflammation, pain and a rash in the finger webs and may spread to the palms and...

25 March 2020 5,596 11 View

Do patients with severe COVID-19 develop an excessive activated immune response?

Today, literature suggests a virus-induced hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis to be the underlying cause of deterioration in these patients.

25 March 2020 2,118 8 View

In the case of COVID -19 outburst, do you think social distancing will help the elderly to not get sick?

Social distancing measures restrict when and where people can gather in order to stop or slow the spread of infectious diseases. A low risk patient, or someone who has minimal or even no...

25 March 2020 1,386 5 View

Safely re-use an N95 or FFP mask to protect against COVID-19?

Stanford researchers confirm N95 masks can be sterilized and reused with virtually no loss of filtration efficiency by leaving in the oven for 30 minutes.

25 March 2020 8,528 6 View

How can we increase immunity to fight against SARS-CoV-2 ?

...your immune system has got to remember the virus; over time, immunity may fade, allowing the virus to reinfect you...

25 March 2020 874 25 View

Patients who get the virus and recover, do they get immunity ?

There is no convincing evidence at the moment that people who have gone through the infection and recovered will become immune and won’t be reinfected.

25 March 2020 5,815 20 View

After COVID-19 infection, recovered patients have partially reduced lung function?

In some patients, lung function declined by about 20 to 30% after recovery. Computer tomography of COVID-19 patients revealed a ground glass opacity in both lungs.

01 January 1970 3,043 5 View

Sensitivity of Chest CT in coronavirus disease

The accuracy of chest computed tomography in symptomatic patients is high, but used as a single diagnostic test, computed tomography can not safely diagnose or exclude coronavirus infection. Point...

01 January 1970 7,801 3 View

Is pneumococcal vaccination effective against COVID-19?

It seems the COVID 19 itself is causing pneumonia, so that pneumonia vaccine will likely have no effect.

01 January 1970 4,509 10 View

Covid-19 vaccine

These vaccines need to be maintained at a specific temperature to ensure they stay viable. When holding vaccines in a cooler and refreshing with dry ice or in standard freezers, it’s hard to know...

01 January 1970 239 4 View

Could Polidin (oral vaccine) be successfully used against COVID 19?

Polidin is an immunostimulant suspension from cultures of Strep pyogenes, Strep viridans, Neisseria catarrhalis, Diplococcus pneumoniae, E coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Strep faecalis, Strep...

01 January 1970 1,112 7 View