Combination therapy with predicted body weight-based dexamethasone, remdesivir, and baricitinib in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia : A single-center retrospective cohort study during 5th wave in Japan

Copyright © 2023 The Japanese Respiratory Society. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved..

BACKGROUND: Dexamethasone, remdesivir, and baricitinib reduce mortality in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A single-arm study using combination therapy with all three drugs reported low mortality in patients with severe COVID-19. In this clinical setting, whether dexamethasone administered as a fixed dose of 6 mg has sufficient inflammatory modulation effects of reducing lung injury has been debated.

METHODS: This single-center retrospective study was conducted to compare the treatment strategies/management in different time periods. A total of 152 patients admitted with COVID-19 pneumonia who required oxygen therapy were included in this study. A predicted body weight (PBW)-based dose of dexamethasone with remdesivir and baricitinib was administered between May and June 2021. After this period, patients were administered a fixed dose of dexamethasone at 6.6 mg/day between July and August 2021. The additional respiratory support frequency of high-flow nasal cannula, noninvasive ventilation, and mechanical ventilation was analyzed. Moreover, the Kaplan-Meier method was used to analyze the duration of oxygen therapy and the 30-day discharge alive rate, and they were compared using the log-rank test.

RESULTS: Intervention and prognostic comparisons were performed in 64 patients with PBW-based and 88 with fixed-dose groups. The frequency of infection or additional respiratory support did not differ statistically. The cumulative incidence of being discharged alive or oxygen-free rate within 30 days did not differ between the groups.

CONCLUSIONS: In patients with COVID-19 pneumonia who required oxygen therapy, combination therapy with PBW-based dexamethasone, remdesivir, and baricitinib might not shorten the hospital stay's length or oxygen therapy's duration.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:61

Enthalten in:

Respiratory investigation - 61(2023), 4 vom: 25. Juli, Seite 438-444

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hirasawa, Yasutaka [VerfasserIn]
Terada, Jiro [VerfasserIn]
Shionoya, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Fujikawa, Atsushi [VerfasserIn]
Isaka, Yuri [VerfasserIn]
Takeshita, Yuichiro [VerfasserIn]
Kinouchi, Toru [VerfasserIn]
Koshikawa, Ken [VerfasserIn]
Tajima, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Kinoshita, Taku [VerfasserIn]
Tada, Yuji [VerfasserIn]
Tatsumi, Koichiro [VerfasserIn]
Tsushima, Kenji [VerfasserIn]

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Baricitinib
COVID-19
Dexamethasone
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Journal Article
Pneumonia
Predicted body weight
Remdesivir

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Date Completed 19.06.2023

Date Revised 19.06.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.resinv.2023.03.009

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NLM356231380