Tag: coronavirus
Covid-19 Vaccines – What Multiple Myeloma Patients Should Know?
Multiple myeloma patients are often immunosuppressed for months following treatments such as maintenance therapies, immunosuppressive drugs, hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) and CAR-T therapies. They are at higher risk for serious complications from the SARS-CoV-2 virus leading to hospitalizations and ICU…
Stem Cell Therapy for COVID-19 related ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome)
Acute respiratory distress syndrome or ARDS is a very serious complication for many patients suffering from COVID-19, and is believed to account for about 80% of the deaths in ventilated patients. There is no proven or FDA-approved treatment for it,…
Covid 19 Convalescent Plasma Study
Convalescent plasma therapy involves the transfusion of plasma collected from a donor who has recovered from Covid-19 to a patient with an active infection. Two recent studies have shown that convalescent plasma therapy can be used in treating critically-ill covid-19…