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ReviewInflammopharmacology2022

Assessment of drugs administered in the Middle East as part of the COVID-19 management protocols.

Engy Elekhnawy, Walaa A Negm, Suzy A El-Sherbeni, Ahmed Zayed

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Review in Inflammopharmacology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Cholinergic dysfunction in COVID-19: frantic search and hoping for the best.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Engy ElekhnawyPharmaceutical Microbiology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University, Elguish Street (Medical Campus), Tanta, 31527, Egypt.
Walaa A NegmPharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University, Elguish Street (Medical Campus), Tanta, 31527, Egypt. walaa.negm@pharm.tanta.edu.eg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0463-8047
Suzy A El-SherbeniPharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University, Elguish Street (Medical Campus), Tanta, 31527, Egypt.
Ahmed ZayedPharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tanta University, Elguish Street (Medical Campus), Tanta, 31527, Egypt.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pandemic spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) has been reported first at the end of 2019. It continues disturbing various human aspects with multiple pandemic waves showing more fatal novel variants. Now Egypt faces the sixth wave of the pandemic with controlled governmental measures. COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease-causing mild to moderate illness that can be progressed into life-threatening complications based on patients- and variant type-related factors. The symptoms vary from dry cough, fever to difficulty in breathing that required urgent hospitalization. Most countries have authorized their national protocols for managing manifested symptoms and thus lowering the rate of patients' hospitalization and boosting the healthcare systems. These protocols are still in use even with the development and approval of several vaccines. These protocols were instructed to aid home isolation, bed rest, dietary supplements, and additionally the administration of antipyretic, steroids, and antiviral drugs. The current review aimed to highlight the administered protocols in the Middle East, namely in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia demonstrating how these protocols have shown potential effectiveness in treating patients and saving many soles.

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COVID-19 Drug TreatmentAntiviral AgentsHumansMiddle EastPandemicsPharmaceutical PreparationsAntiviral AgentsPharmaceutical PreparationsAntiviralCOVID-19 pandemicEgyptMiddle EastProtocolSaudi Arabia

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PMID36018432
PMCPMC9411846

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