Effectiveness of corticoid pulses in patients with cytokine storm syndrome induced by SARS-CoV-2 infection

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INTRODUCTION: Cytokine storm syndrome (CSS) is a serious complication of COVID-19 patients. Treatment is tocilizumab. The use of glucocorticoids (GC) is controversial. In other very similar CSS, such as macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) and hemophagocytic syndrome (HFS), the main treatment are corticosteroids. Our objective is to evaluate the efficacy of GC in the CSS by COVID-19.

PATIENTS: We included 92 patients with CSS associated to COVID-19 who received GC, GC, and tocilizumab and only tocilizumab. We determine CSS markers. We evaluated mortality, intubation, and a combined variable.

RESULTS: In all cases the percentages of events were lower in the group of patients with GC was administered. The hazard ratio of the final variables with GC versus the group in which only tocilizumab was administered was lower as CGs were considered, with statistical significance for survival.

DISCUSSION: The early use of GC pulses could control SLC, with a lower requirement to use tocilizumab and a decrease in events such as intubation and death.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:155

Enthalten in:

Medicina clinica (English ed.) - 155(2020), 4 vom: 28. Aug., Seite 159-161

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Callejas Rubio, José Luis [VerfasserIn]
Luna Del Castillo, Juan de Dios [VerfasserIn]
de la Hera Fernández, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Guirao Arrabal, Emilio [VerfasserIn]
Colmenero Ruiz, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Ortego Centeno, Norberto [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Case Reports
Coronavirus COVID-19
Cytokine release syndrome
Hemophagocytic

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 16.04.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.medcle.2020.07.002

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NLM314085394