Section to complete information about the inclusion and exclusion criteria for participant selection, including age and gender.
Inclusion criteria:
1. Express voluntariness of the patient, family member or impartial witness.
2. Any gender and skin color
3. Age equal to or greater than 18 years
4. SARS-CoV-2 infection diagnosed by RT-PCR that presents any of the following characteristics:
4.1 Confirmed multifocal interstitial pneumonia or,
4.2 Need for oxygen therapy to maintain SO2> 93% or;
4.3 Worsening of lung involvement, defined as one of the following criteria:
4.3.1 Worsening of oxygen saturation> 3 percentage points or decrease in PaO2> 10%, with stable FiO2 in the last 24h.
4.3.2 Need to increase FiO2 in order to maintain a stable SO2 or new need for mechanical installation in the last 24 hours.
4.3.3 Increase in the number and / or extent of lung areas of consolidation.
FOR CONFIRMED CASES RT-PCR positive ASYMPTOMATIC high risk ”which would be:
1. Patients 65 years of age or older or;
2. or who have any of the risk factors associated with mortality in Covid-19 (obesity, complicated HT, ischemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus, COPD, cancer, kidney failure, severe malnutrition, and others considered by attending physicians).
This group will be kept under strict clinical surveillance
FOR CONFIRMED CASES RT-PCR positive SYMPTOMATIC RT-PCR positive “Moderate high risk”.
1. Patients who present manifestations of lower respiratory infection WITHOUT signs of severity (mild pneumonia) that are:
1.1 Patients 65 years of age or older; or
1.2 Patients who have any of the risk factors associated with mortality in Covid-19 (obesity, complicated HT, ischemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus, COPD, cancer, kidney failure, severe malnutrition, neutrophil / lymphocyte ratio> 4 and others that consider the attending physicians).
Important: These cases will be treated in a different room with the supervision of the intensivists. Each case will be evaluated individually. (If the disease has been evolving for 8 days or more, treatment with Heberferon should be discontinued, and prophylactic anticoagulant treatment should be indicated in cases that meet the criteria for such therapy).
Alternatively, itolizumab can be used in patients with suspected macrophage activation syndrome, according to the following criteria:
1. Need for oxygen therapy not less than 6L / min plus one of the following conditions:
1.1 Wheezing or choppy speech (cannot quickly count to 20 after a deep breath)
1.2 Respiratory rate greater than 22 breaths per minute with oxygen therapy at 6L / min
1.3 PO2: Partial pressure of arterial oxygen <65 mm Hg
1.4 Worsening of the radiological image
1.5 Fever ≥38ºC
1.6 Reduction in baseline values of hemoglobin, platelets or neutrophils or Hb <90 g / L, platelets <100 x109 / L, neutrophils <1 x109 / L or leukocytes <4 x109 / L.
1.7 Decrease in erythrocyte sedimentation in disagreement with C-reactive protein (pcr) (low erythrocyte sedimentation and CRP increases or is not modified)
1.8 Increase in the initial value of triglycerides or triglycerides greater than 3 mmol. / L.
1.9 Increase in the initial value of ferritin from 500 ng / ml or absolute value of ferritin ≥ 2000 ng / ml.
1.10 Aspartate aminotransferase transaminase ≥30 IU / L
1.11 Increase in D-dimer
1.12 Fibrinogen <2.5 g / L
1.13 Appearance of neurological manifestations
Exclusion criteria:
1- Pregnant or nursing women.
2- Under 18 years of age.