An Arizona man, who was literally on his last few breaths due to COVID-19, has beaten the disease thanks to a rarely-used blood treatment, USA Today reports.
Enes Dedic, 53, had traveled overseas before returning to his Phoenix home. He spent weeks battling the usual COVID-19 symptoms, including body aches, nausea, fever and chills. Eventually, he was admitted to HonorHealth’s Deer Valley Medical Center, where he quickly deteriorated.
Doctors used just about every tool in their belts to try to cure the man of the disease that looked as if it was going to turn fatal in his case. The anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, the antibiotic azithromycin, various anti-viral drugs, even anti-inflammatories: all had shown limited promise in treating some COVID-19 patients in some cases. But with Dedic, none of them worked.
By this time, Dedic had been placed on a ventilator and was on the brink of death.
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