Coronaviruses cause severe diseases mainly of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract. The infection of humans with coronaviruses have been known since the sixties to be associated with respiratory tract i.e. common cold-like diseases. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus (SARS-CoV) is a highly aggressive in humans with often fatal outcome. The inventors aim at developing a new prophylactic or preventive therapeutic approach as well as a curative therapeutic approach based on the local delivery of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) or its metabolite (e.g. Desethylhydroxychloroquine (DHCQ)) into the lung by aerosolization. The present invention relates to a method of treating Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus (SARS-CoV) in a patient in need thereof comprising administering to the patient's lungs a therapeutically effective amount of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and/or Desethylhydroxychloroquine (DHCQ) by aerosolization.
冠状病毒主要引起呼吸道和胃肠道的严重疾病。自六十年代以来,人们就知道冠状病毒感染人类会引起呼吸道疾病,即类似普通感冒的疾病。严重急性呼吸系统综合症--冠状病毒(
SARS-CoV)对人类的侵袭性很强,往往会导致死亡。本发明者旨在开发一种新的预防性治疗方法,以及一种基于羟基
氯喹(H
CQ)或其代谢物(如去乙基羟基
氯喹(DH
CQ))通过气溶胶局部输送到肺部的治疗方法。本发明涉及一种治疗严重急性呼吸系统综合症-科罗纳病毒(
SARS-CoV)的方法,该方法包括通过气溶胶化给患者肺部注射治疗有效量的羟
氯喹(H
CQ)和/或去乙基羟
氯喹(DH
CQ)。