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Compassionate use of tocilizumab in severe SARS-CoV2 pneumonia – MD Linx
MDLinx original journal summary on Pneumonia, Infectious Disease from International Journal of Infectious Diseases
In the treatment of severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia (SSP), tocilizumab has been used with the aim to relieve the cytokine release syndrome (CRS)-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Researchers here investigated the patients in whom it might benefit the most. Tocilizumab on a compassionate-use basis was provided to hospitalized patients with SSP (excluding intensive care and intubated cases) who required oxygen support to have a saturation > 93%. They studied a total of 207 patients and…
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