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Covid urine test shows whether corona infection could be severe - theoretically, any doctor can do it

2021-04-07T15:08:44.661Z


It is difficult to assess whether a person infected with corona will show only mild symptoms or become seriously ill - until now. A new urine test should provide answers.


It is difficult to assess whether a person infected with corona will show only mild symptoms or become seriously ill - until now.

A new urine test should provide answers.

A new study comes to the conclusion that only around 13 to 18 percent of people with corona infection show symptoms at all.

Doctors have already identified a number of risk factors - such as obesity and old age - that promote severe Covid courses.

However, life-threatening courses that result from treatment in the intensive care unit can also occur in young people.

A new type of test should be able to predict the course of the disease shortly after infection.

As the Ärzteblatt informs, the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) granted a urine test that provides information on whether a person infected with Sars-CoV-2 will contract Covid-19 easily or severely with limited special approval until the end of February .

During this period, the urine test procedure was tested as part of a clinical study involving the seven STAKOB treatment centers in Germany, including the Schwabing Clinic in Munich, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).

This special

approval

has now been revoked:

The DiaPat-CoV-50 urine test was regularly approved on January 22nd, 2021 and has since been allowed to be performed by every doctor in Germany, according to the manufacturer.

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A smear for a PCR test is taken by an employee at the Corona test center: People with a positive PCR test can have the new type of corona urine test, which is intended to predict the course of the disease, performed by any doctor.

© Sina Schuldt / dpa

Corona early detection: "Severe disease progression can be predicted from the first day of the Covid 19 diagnosis"

The urine test called DiaPat-CoV-50 had promising results in a study funded by the Federal Ministry of Health with 330 patients, according to the Ärzteblatt.

The test was able to predict with about 90 percent certainty whether a corona infection would be severe or mild

.

With the test based on a proteome analysis, severe courses could be treated earlier and more specifically and thus mitigated, the Ärzteblatt continues.

The test is particularly useful with regard to certain drugs: "(...) In addition, specific drugs, such as neutralizing antibodies, only work in the early phase of the disease," says the Ärzteblatt Christoph Lübbert, chief physician at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the St. Georg Clinic in Leipzig.

If the urine test shows that there is a risk of a severe corona course, such therapies could start early

.

"With the DiaPat-CoV-50 urine test, severe disease progressions can be predicted from the first day of the Covid-19 diagnosis and enable, for example, the efficient use of the existing drugs against Sars-CoV-2", confirms study leader Joachim Beige, chief physician of the clinic for nephrology at the St. Georg Clinic in Leipzig.

With the regular approval of the DiaPat-CoV-50 test on January 22nd, 2021.

Patients with a Covid 19 disease confirmed by a PCR test can take the urine test at any doctor in Germany.

To do this, you have to contact DiaPat (phone +49 (0) 511 55 47 44 44) and specify where the test set should be sent, informs the manufacturer DiaPat.

Subsequently, the urine delivery and the dispatch should be coordinated with the attending physician.

"

This means that every doctor in Germany is entitled to carry out the DiaPat-CoV-50 test for the early molecular detection of the course of the complications in order

to prevent a severe course of Covid-19 in good time," says the manufacturer.

(jg)

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