Scientists celebrate a breakthrough in corona research.
Long Covid patients were cured.
Erlangen - It is a breakthrough in Corona * research: a Long Covid patient and a female patient are on the mend. They owe their progress in recovery to the eye clinic of the University Clinic Erlangen of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). At the beginning of July 2021, the eye clinic announced the world's first successful attempt at healing a 59-year-old Long Covid patient. This is reported by Infranken.de. All three received the corona drug BC 007.
The two Long Covid patients are a 51-year-old man from the Allgäu and a 39-year-old woman from Middle Franconia.
Both received the corona drug BC 007 in a single infusion that lasted 75 minutes.
They then remained under inpatient control for three days.
Your health will continue to be monitored on an outpatient basis.
The improved performance and quality of life are clearly noticeable and measurable in both sufferers.
Corona drug lets Long Covid symptoms subside
The corona drug leads to the patient's and the two patients' long-covid symptoms subside. "After a Covid-19 illness, special autoantibodies circulate in the blood. These are directed against your own organism and can, for example, damage certain body structures and impair blood circulation, ”explains ophthalmologist PD Dr. Dr. Bettina Hohberger. The drug BC 007 was actually developed years ago for patients with severe heart disease. Now it could fight long covid symptoms.
“With the two currently treated, we see: BC 007 neutralizes the harmful autoantibodies, and the pure microcirculation improves - that is, the blood circulation in the finest blood vessels of the eye.
We can prove this with the help of optical coherence tomography angiography, OCT-A.
In addition, the clinical long-covid symptoms have decreased in both patients, "confirms Bettina Hohberger.
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The 51-year-old Oliver G. reports to Infranken.de how much his corona infection has torn him out of his life.
The internationally active key account manager, multiple Ironman and cross-country skier suddenly suffered from severe exhaustion, balance, coordination and memory disorders as well as muscle twitching.
He also suffered from severe tremors in his right hand and arm.
Long Covid patient receives corona drug in July
“The tremor was so strong that it radiated down to the leg. At some point I thought I had Parkinson's, "reports the Long Covid patient, who had to give up his demanding job in sales in May 2020. “I was completely disoriented and unable to concentrate and was just trying to survive. I was a decal of myself - a zombie and not me, ”is how Oliver G. describes the so-called brain fog in his head. He had to break off a professional reintegration in his company after three months.
At the beginning of July he turned to the eye clinic at the University Clinic in Erlangen.
At the end of July he received the infusion with the corona drug BC 007. The antibodies had been neutralized and the blood circulation had improved quickly.
The day after the infusion, the brain fog had already disappeared and the muscle twitching had subsided.
A short time later, the muscle twitching would have stopped.
Corona drug: Long Covid patient is on the way to healing
“My physical, cognitive and psychological performance has returned.
There is an end to vegetation;
I can think clearly again, feel joy and am emotionally stable, ”says the patient.
He is pleased: “In September I will start working again in my old position - after 15 months!
I am grateful that my employer has not given up on me and on mine
Has always supported the path of healing. ”The other two victims report similar things.
"It seems that the drug BC 007 leads to better blood circulation and thus to subsidence of the long-covid complaints.
We want to research the exact mechanisms of action even more precisely in the future ”, says PD Dr.
Dr.
Hohberger.
(Jan Wendt)
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Patients suffer from some Long Covid symptoms for more than six months *.