Successful recovery of severe COVID-19 with cytokine storm treating with extracorporeal blood purification

COVID-19 associated cytokine storm could rapidly induce ARDS, and the patients would require mechanical ventilation. However, the prognosis was not that optimistic. The outcome might be changed if the timely intervention of EBP was performed. We present a case of severe SARS-CoV-2 infection who recovered from a cytokine storm. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases.