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cord-288271-p074ffpt	Mathies, D.	A Case of SARS‐CoV‐2‐pneumonia with successful antiviral therapy in a 77‐year‐old male with heart transplant	2020-04-21		.txt	text/plain	2473	155	52	In this report, we present a 77‐year old patient with a heart transplant under relevant immunosuppressive therapy who was tested positive for SARS‐CoV‐2 after several days of dyspnoea, dry cough and light general symptoms. All rights reserved Diagnosis: SARS-CoV-2-Infection with viral pneumonia in a patient with heart transplant due to coronary artery disease with ischemic cardiomyopathy In this case the combination of radiologic signs of viral pneumonia and the supposed high-risk state of severe immunosuppression led to the decision to start an antiviral therapy immediately after receiving the positive rtPCR-results although the patient presented only mild symptoms. [13] A second question is whether patients with a solid organ transplant who receive immunosuppressive medication are at greater risk for a severe manifestation of a SARS-CoV 2-Infection or might even benefit from a reduced immunologic reaction. For SARS-CoV 2 we found two cases of patients with a heart transplant of which one had only mild manifestations and one required mechanical ventilation but survived [9] .	./cache/cord-288271-p074ffpt.txt	./txt/cord-288271-p074ffpt.txt