Practical Considerations in Convalescent Plasma Therapy for Coronavirus Disease 2019

Abstract

Convalescent plasma therapy has been used to achieve passive immunization against diverse infectious agents by administering pathogen-specific antibodies Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), which originated in Wuhan, China, has recently become a major concern all over the world There are no specific treatment recommendations for COVID-19 because of the lack of knowledge and evidence about this virus Convalescent plasma therapy can be used as an empirical and investigational treatment for COVID-19, and so we briefly describe the main issues related to convalescent plasma therapy from the perspective of transfusion medicine