A differential therapeutic consideration for use of corticosteroids according to established COVID-19 clinical phenotypes in critically ill patients

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Objective: To determine if the use of corticosteroids was associated with Intensive Care Unit (ICU) mortality among whole population and pre-specified clinical phenotypes.

Design: A secondary analysis derived from multicenter, observational study.

Setting: Critical Care Units.

Patients: Adult critically ill patients with confirmed COVID-19 disease admitted to 63 ICUs in Spain.

Interventions: Corticosteroids vs. no corticosteroids.

Main variables of interest: Three phenotypes were derived by non-supervised clustering analysis from whole population and classified as (A: severe, B: critical and C: life-threatening). We performed a multivariate analysis after propensity optimal full matching (PS) for whole population and weighted Cox regression (HR) and Fine-Gray analysis (sHR) to assess the impact of corticosteroids on ICU mortality according to the whole population and distinctive patient clinical phenotypes.

Results: A total of 2017 patients were analyzed, 1171 (58%) with corticosteroids. After PS, corticosteroids were shown not to be associated with ICU mortality (OR: 1.0; 95% CI: 0.98-1.15). Corticosteroids were administered in 298/537 (55.5%) patients of "A" phenotype and their use was not associated with ICU mortality (HR = 0.85 [0.55-1.33]). A total of 338/623 (54.2%) patients in "B" phenotype received corticosteroids. No effect of corticosteroids on ICU mortality was observed when HR was performed (0.72 [0.49-1.05]). Finally, 535/857 (62.4%) patients in "C" phenotype received corticosteroids. In this phenotype HR (0.75 [0.58-0.98]) and sHR (0.79 [0.63-0.98]) suggest a protective effect of corticosteroids on ICU mortality.

Conclusion: Our finding warns against the widespread use of corticosteroids in all critically ill patients with COVID-19 at moderate dose. Only patients with the highest inflammatory levels could benefit from steroid treatment.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:47

Enthalten in:

Medicina intensiva - 47(2023), 1 vom: 15. Jan., Seite 23-33

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Moreno, G [VerfasserIn]
Ruiz-Botella, M [VerfasserIn]
Martín-Loeches, I [VerfasserIn]
Gómez Álvarez, J [VerfasserIn]
Jiménez Herrera, M [VerfasserIn]
Bodí, M [VerfasserIn]
Armestar, F [VerfasserIn]
Marques Parra, A [VerfasserIn]
Estella, Á [VerfasserIn]
Trefler, S [VerfasserIn]
Jorge García, R [VerfasserIn]
Murcia Paya, J [VerfasserIn]
Vidal Cortes, P [VerfasserIn]
Díaz, E [VerfasserIn]
Ferrer, R [VerfasserIn]
Albaya-Moreno, A [VerfasserIn]
Socias-Crespi, L [VerfasserIn]
Bonell Goytisolo, J M [VerfasserIn]
Sancho Chinesta, S [VerfasserIn]
Loza, A [VerfasserIn]
Forcelledo Espina, L [VerfasserIn]
Pozo Laderas, J C [VerfasserIn]
deAlba-Aparicio, M [VerfasserIn]
Sánchez Montori, L [VerfasserIn]
Vallverdú Perapoch, I [VerfasserIn]
Hidalgo, V [VerfasserIn]
Fraile Gutiérrez, V [VerfasserIn]
Casamitjana Ortega, A M [VerfasserIn]
Martín Serrano, F [VerfasserIn]
Nieto, M [VerfasserIn]
Blasco Cortes, M [VerfasserIn]
Marín-Corral, J [VerfasserIn]
Solé-Violán, J [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez, A [VerfasserIn]
on behalf COVID-19 SEMICYUC Working Group [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Corticosteroids
ICU mortality
Journal Article
Phenotypes
SARS-CoV2-pneumonia
Unsupervised clustering

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Date Revised 11.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.medin.2021.10.002

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM332585573