Mortality in COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and corticosteroids use : a systematic review and meta-analysis

OBJECTIVES: The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) secondary to viral pneumonitis is one of the main causes of high mortality in patients with COVID-19 (novel coronavirus disease 2019). We systematically reviewed mortality in COVID-19 patients with ARDS and the potential role of systemic corticosteroids in COVID-19 patients.

METHODS: Electronic databases and country-specific healthcare databases were searched to identify relevant studies/reports. The quality assessment of individual studies was conducted using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Country-specific proportion of individuals with COVID-19 who developed ARDS and reported death were combined in a random-effect meta-analysis to give a pooled mortality estimate of ARDS.

RESULTS: The overall pooled mortality estimate among 10,815 ARDS cases in COVID-19 patients was 39% (95% CI: 23-56%). The pooled mortality estimate for China was 69% (95% CI: 67-72%). In Europe, the highest mortality estimate among COVID-19 patients with ARDS was reported in Poland (73%; 95% CI: 58-86%) while Germany had the lowest mortality estimate (13%; 95% CI: 2-29%) among COVID-19 patients with ARDS. The median crude mortality rate of COVID-19 patients with reported corticosteroid use was 28.0% (lower quartile: 13.9%; upper quartile: 53.6%).

CONCLUSIONS: The high mortality in COVID-19 associated ARDS necessitates a prompt and aggressive treatment strategy which includes corticosteroids. Most of the studies included no information on the dosing regimen of corticosteroid therapy, however, low-dose corticosteroid therapy or pulse corticosteroid therapy appears to have a beneficial role in the management of severely ill COVID-19 patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Expert review of respiratory medicine - 14(2020), 11 vom: 08. Nov., Seite 1149-1163

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hasan, Syed Shahzad [VerfasserIn]
Capstick, Toby [VerfasserIn]
Ahmed, Raees [VerfasserIn]
Kow, Chia Siang [VerfasserIn]
Mazhar, Faizan [VerfasserIn]
Merchant, Hamid A [VerfasserIn]
Zaidi, Syed Tabish Razi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute respiratory distress syndrome
Adrenal Cortex Hormones
Coronavirus disease 2019
Corticosteroids
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
Mortality
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 04.11.2020

Date Revised 28.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/17476348.2020.1804365

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313102953