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Hüseyin Arıkan 1 , Dilek Karadoğan 2 , Fatma Tokgöz Akyıl 3 , Aycan Yüksel 4 , Zehra Nur Töreyin 5 , Canan Gündüz Gürkan 6 , Feride Marim 7 , Tuğba Şişmanlar Eyüboğlu 8 , Nagehan Emiralioğlu 9 , Tuğba Ramaslı Gürsoy 8 , İrem Şerifoğlu 10 , Abdulsamet Sandal 11 , Aslı Öncel 12 , Berrin Er 13 , Neslihan Köse 14 , Dorina Esendağlı 15 , Mina Hızal 16 , Aslıhan Banu Er 17 , Fatma Esra Günaydın 18 , İlknur Kaya 19 , Hilal Özakıncı 20 , Ümran Özden Sertçelik 12 , Hatice Çelik Tuğlu 21 , Nilüfer Aylin Acet Özürk 18 , Özlem Ataoğlu 22 , Ahu Cerit Çakır 23 , Hüseyin Toptay 24 , Merve Erçelik 22 , Elif Develi 25 , Selman Çelik 26 , Fatma Gülsüm Karakaş 27 , Halime Yıldırım 28 , Damla Karadeniz Güven 12 , Nazlı Çetin 29 , Sümeyye Nur Aslan Küçükyurt 30 , Mehmet Fatih Elverişli 31 , Pınar Yıldız Gülhan 32 , Metin Akgün 33
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Department of Internal Medicine, Intensive Care Unit, Yüzüncü Yıl University, Dursun Odabaş Medical Center, Van, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University School of Medicine, Rize, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Ufuk University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

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Department of Occupational Health and Diseases, Adana City Research and Training Hospital, Adana, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Süreyyapaşa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Kütahya University of Health Sciences School of Medicine, Kütahya, Turkey

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Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

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Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

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Clinic of Chest Diseases, Kırıkhan State Hospital, Hatay, Turkey

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Department of Occupational Health and Diseases, Ankara Occupational and Environmental Diseases Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

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Department of Internal Medicine, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Unit of Intensive Care, Ankara, Turkey

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Clinic of Chest Diseases, Bilecik State Hospital, Bilecik, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Başkent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

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Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Denizli State Hospital, Denizli, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Allergy and Immunology, Uludağ University School of Medicine, Bursa, Turkey

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Clinic of Chest Diseases, Ardahan State Hospital Ardahan, Turkey

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Department of Pathology, Ankara University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Kahramanmaraş Afşin State Hospital, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Düzce University, School of Medicine, Düzce, Turkey

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Clinic of Chest Diseases, Siirt State Hospital, Siirt, Turkey

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Department of Intensive Care Unit, Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey

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Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Yeditepe University, School of Health Sciences, İstanbul, Turkey

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Department of Nursing, Yeditepe University, School of Health Sciences, İstanbul, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, İstanbul Cerrahpasa University, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey

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Department of Medical Biology, University of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Pamukkale University School of Medicine, Denizli, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Osmangazi University School of Medicine, Eskişehir, Turkey

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Clinic of Chest Diseases, Ünye State Hospital, Ordu, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Düzce University School of Medicine, Düzce, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Atatürk University School of Medicine, Erzurum, Turkey

Thorac Res Pract 2020; 21: 438-445
DOI: 10.5152/TurkThoracJ.2020.20125
Keywords : Coronavirus disease 2019, treatment, hydroxychloroquine, tocilizumab, convalescent plasma
Read: 3016 Downloads: 1005 Published: 09 December 2020
Volume 21, Issue 6, November 2020
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As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads across the world, the ongoing clinical trials are leading to a big race worldwide to develop a treatment that will help control the pandemic. Unfortunately, COVID-19 does not have any known effective treatment with reliable study results yet. In this pandemic, there is not a lot of time to develop a new specific agent because of the rapid spread of the disease. The process of developing a vaccine is long and requires hard work. Although the pathophysiology of the disease is not fully understood, some of the proposed treatment alternatives are based on old evidence and some have been used with the idea that they might work owing to their mechanism of action. The efficacy, reliability, and safety of the currently available treatment alternatives are therefore a matter of debate. Currently, the main therapies used in the treatment of COVID-19 are antiviral drugs and chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine. Other proposed options include tocilizumab, convalescent plasma, and steroids, but the mainstay of the treatment in intensive care units remains supportive therapies.

Cite this article as: Arıkan H, Karadoğan D, Tokgöz Akyıl F, et al. COVID-19 treatment at a glance. Turk Thorac J 2020; 21(6): 438-45.

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