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Health24.com | Could stroke drug help coronavirus patients avoid ventilators?
For people very sick with the new coronavirus, access to a mechanical ventilator can mean life or death. Trouble is, they’re in short supply in the United States and around the world.
Now, research suggests that a widely used clot-busting stroke drug might help coronavirus patients who can’t access a ventilator or who fail to improve even when they do gain access.
Blood-clotting disorder
The research focuses on a drug called tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), which is normally used to quickly dissolve blood clots that cause strokes or heart attacks.
New data from China and Italy suggest that people with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, have a significant blood-clotting disorder.
Patients in respiratory failure develop blood clots in the lungs and tiny blockages in the lung’s blood vessels. These tiny clots keep blood from reaching air spaces in the lungs, and that’s where blood normally receives oxygen from the lungs.
“This is a way to repurpose a drug for which there is already widespread clinical utility,” said senior researcher Dr Michael Yaffe, a professor of biology and biological engineering at Massachusetts of Institute of Technology.
Dr Hunter Moore, a transplant fellow at the University of Colorado Denver, is a study co-author.
“Everyone is looking for ways to mitigate the threat of this disease, and there’s a lot of investment and interest in new drugs,” Moore said. “But if this disease gets out of control, those drugs won’t have had safety evaluations. TPA has.”
While well-studied in stroke and heart attack, the use of tPA for acute respiratory distress syndrome has mostly been investigated in animals. A small human trial was conducted in 2001 on people with severe respiratory distress who weren’t expected to survive.
Potential therapeutic value
Moore said tPA reduced the death rate in those patients from 100% to 70%.
The researchers noted that further studies haven’t been done because people typically improve well with the support of ventilators. But as Covid-19 overwhelms the health care system, there may not be enough ventilators for patients who need them.
“TPA may potentially hold therapeutic value in treating severely ill Covid-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome that is unresponsive to typical ventilation strategies,” said Dr Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
He said the science supporting its use is sound.
“Tiny clots block small blood vessels in the lungs, preventing adequate oxygenation and ventilation,” said Glatter, who wasn’t part of the study. “The drug also prevents clots from blocking blood vessels in the kidney and heart, leading to kidney and heart failure. TPA dissolves the clots, opening up small blood vessels, improving the ability of the lungs and other critical organs to function normally.”
A ‘compassionate trial’
While bleeding is a potential risk of tPA, Glatter noted that this didn’t happen in the one study that was done.
Yaffe said researchers are planning a “compassionate use” trial of the drug on Covid-19 patients, possibly beginning within a week, to see if tPA helps these patients. They will be assessing both intravenous tPA and inhaled tPA.
A compassionate use trial allows patients with a serious or life-threatening illness to receive an investigational therapy.
Patients selected for the trial will either be on ventilators or appear to need ventilation. They will be high-risk patients who have potentially deadly acute respiratory distress syndrome.
The researchers hope to test tPA in 12 people, but will evaluate its effectiveness and safety after four patients.
Extraordinary measures
The dose of tPA they’ll use is lower than that typically prescribed for stroke or heart attack patients. It will also be delivered over a longer time period.
Yaffe said tPA’s manufacturer, Genentech, is providing the study medication for free. If the trial is successful, the drug maker has told researchers it is prepared to ramp up production.
Given the increasing rate of Covid-19 infections, the researchers hope the trial might begin as soon as next week.
“Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. If an observational trial of this treatment in the first series of patients is effective and safe, the approach could be readily broadened. This would have multiple patient-related and public health benefits,” the researchers said in their study.
*Published online in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.
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Sport24.co.za | Piedt ends Proteas career, moves to the US
Proteas spinner Dane Piedt has ended his South African cricketing career and will relocate to the United States of America.
Piedt took to Twitter on Friday and revealed that he has signed a deal to play professional cricket in the States.
The 30-year-old is expected to compete in the new Minor League Cricket T20 tournament, which sees 22 teams battle in a 9-week season.
Last year October, Piedt was recalled to the national set-up for the Proteas’ three-match Test series against India after a three-year long absence.
He featured in two Tests in India and could only manage two wickets as the Proteas’ suffered a 3-0 whitewash.
Piedt, who made his Proteas debut in 2014, played 9 Tests for South Africa, ending on 26 wickets.
This also brings an end to his 10-year career with his franchise, the Cape Cobras.
Piedt, who captained the Cobras, was the leading wicket-taker (52) in the 2018/19 4-Day Franchise Series, which saw him pick up two awards at last year’s Cricket South Africa awards.
“Never easy leaving. But I love every second, trophies won and life-long friendships made,” wrote Piedt on Twitter.
Thank you for an incredible 10 years @CobrasCricket , it was something I’ll treasure for the rest of my life. Never easy leaving. But I have loved every second, trophies won and life long friendships made. #EkWilnCobraWees ?????????? pic.twitter.com/mhgsZzW6is
— Dane Piedt (@dane_piedt63) March 26, 2020
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— Dane Piedt (@dane_piedt63) March 27, 2020
– Compiled by Lynn Butler
News24.com | Pastor’s wife on contracting coronavirus: ‘Be scared of Hell!’
A pastor’s wife, the first person to be diagnosed with the coronavirus in the Northern Cape, says the pandemic is a warning to everyone.
Her husband has also tested positive.
Berna Kruger (43) confirmed to YOU that she and her husband, Henk, of the Light the World Ministries in Hartswater, Northern Cape, had tested positive on Friday, 20 March. They’d attended the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast at a Bloemfontein church on 10 and 11 March.
Berna says she and Henk didn’t immediately experience any symptoms.
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“At first, it felt like a typical flu to me,” she said from quarantine in the family’s home in Hartswater.
“I’m feeling much better now than I did last week! But remember God knows everything. He is in charge.”
Berna said they got back home on Thursday, 12 March, but that she only started feeling unwell on Tuesday, 17 March.
“I had a bad fever and my body was very sore,” said Berna, who never thought it would be because of the coronavirus. “I just went to bed.”
Berna said Henk also started feeling ill – but it was only when they got a call informing them that five of the foreign speakers at the rally had tested positive that they were officially tested and immediately quarantined on Friday, 20 March.
Henk was tested along with Berna, but his results were lost. It was later found, and on Tuesday they heard that he, too, was positive.
The couple’s four teenage daughters have also been tested, but their results aren’t known yet.
“We all have symptoms, but we’re still okay.”
She said her fever broke on Thursday, 19 March, but this past Sunday – 22 March – she started having dry cough symptoms.
“I now feel weak and I have no energy. Almost like when you have malaria.”
Berna said as soon as she and Henk learnt about their possible exposure to the virus, they cooperated fully with the health department.
“We made a list of everyone we had contact with and they were all followed up and tested. Everyone should cooperate.”
She also said that the church where the gathering took place acted responsibly and took the trouble to make sure people were tested. The couple are very grateful for this.
Don’t fear the virus
“We’re confident that everything will turn out okay. More than 80% of people recover fully. I hear how people are going crazy about the virus, but nobody fears eternity without God in the same way?
“I’m not afraid of death. I regard it as my ticket to go straight to Jesus and I’m excited about going to Jesus. It breaks my heart that people are this scared of the disease, but not of sin.
“People should fear Hell more. I think this is a reality check for the whole world about the end times and that our creator is on the way. Now is the time to set things right with Him.”
Quality time
Berna’s advice to people around the country is to spend quality time with their families and God.
“People should use the time with Jesus, read the Bible, and learn more about our creator. Even though this virus has hit our country, no one can take away our peace.”
She believes people should also enjoy and appreciate having time to spend with their families.
“Spend time with your family, make the most of this opportunity. Everyone at home should put away their phones.”
Minister’s urgent call
At a media conference in Pretoria on Wednesday, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize appealed to everyone who attended this event at the Divine Restoration Ministries to urgently contact the Free State health department, so they can be tested for the coronavirus.
He referred specifically to the Bloemfontein rally and cautioned people who did not heed the call. He said the department would be compelled to publish their names to ensure that they came forward to be tested.
A representative of the church referred YOU to the health department for official comment.
Mondli Mvambi, spokesperson for the department in the Free State, confirmed to YOU that a total of 360 people had reported on 21 and 22 March to be scanned for symptoms.
They included mostly people who had attended the rally or had been in contact with people who had. A total of 39 people, who displayed preliminary symptoms, were officially tested for Covid-19.
“It’s not our intention to damage the image of the church or stigmatise it. The virus can hit any place or person. We appreciate the cooperation the church has given us so far.
“Covid-19 isn’t a death sentence, but we have a responsibility to test everyone who was there or had contact with those who were there. People can report to their nearest community clinic – all they have to do is be open and make it known that they might have been in contact with someone with the virus. We all have to work together to ensure that the virus doesn’t spread any further.”
The minister confirmed to the media on Wednesday that two people from the Northern Cape, linked to the church rally in Bloemfontein, had tested positive for Covid-19. In total, at the time of publication, the city had 18 confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
Angus Buchan, who also was a speaker at the event, confirmed in his last post on Facebook on Tuesday that he and his wife, Jill, had tested positive.
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