Tocilizumab treatment in COVID-19: A prognostic study using propensity score matching
| Autor: | Özge Aydın Güçlü, Uğur Önal, Halis Akalın, Nilüfer Aylin Acet Öztürk, Hazel Öztürk Belik, Ezgi Demirdöğen, Aslı Görek Dilektaşlı, Esra Kazak, Gökhan Ocakoğlu, İmran Sağlık, Funda Coşkun, Dane Ediger, Yasemin Heper, Ahmet Ursavaş, Emel Yılmaz, Esra Uzaslan, Mehmet Karadağ |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Interleukin-6
SARS-CoV-2 Medicine (miscellaneous) Prognosis Antibodies Monoclonal Humanized General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology COVID-19 Drug Treatment Reviews and References (medical) Internal Medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) Propensity Score Genetics (clinical) Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University. 31(11) |
| ISSN: | 1899-5276 |
| Popis: | The potential role of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia provides the rationale for investigating IL-6 signaling inhibitors.To evaluate and report treatment responses to tocilizumab (TCZ) in COVID-19 patients and compare mortality outcomes with those of standard care.Patients hospitalized with a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, diagnosed with reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) between March 2020 and April 2021, were enrolled in this single-center retrospective cohort study. Propensity score matching was performed in order to reduce confounding effects secondary to imbalances in receiving TCZ treatment.A total of 364 patients were included in this study. Two hundred thirty-six patients received standard care, while 128 patients were treated with TCZ in addition to standard care (26 (20.3%) patients received a dose of 400 mg intravenously once, while 102 (79.7%) patients received a total dose of 800 mg intravenously). In the propensity score-matched population, less noninvasive mechanical ventilation (p = 0.041) and mechanical ventilation support (p = 0.015), and fewer deaths (p = 0.008) were observed among the TCZ-treated patients. The multivariate adjusted Cox regression model showed a significantly higher survival rate among TCZ patients compared to controls (hazard ratio (HR): 0.157, 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 0.026-0.951; p = 0.044). The hazard ratio for mortality in the TCZ group was 0.098 (95% CI: 0.030-0.318; p = 0.0001 using log-rank test).This study determined that TCZ treatment in COVID-19 patients was associated with better survival, reduced need for mechanical ventilation and reduced hospital-associated mortality. |
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