Interleukin-6 blockade with sarilumab in severe COVID-19 pneumonia with systemic hyperinflammation: an open-label cohort study

E Della-Torre, C Campochiaro, G Cavalli… - Annals of the …, 2020 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives To assess the safety and efficacy of interleukin (IL)− 6 blockade with sarilumab in
patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia and systemic hyperinflammation. Methods We …

Treatment of severely ill COVID-19 patients with anti-interleukin drugs (COV-AID): a structured summary of a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

B Maes, C Bosteels, E De Leeuw, J Declercq… - Trials, 2020 - Springer
Objectives The purpose of this study is to test the safety and effectiveness of individually or
simultaneously blocking IL-6, IL-6 receptor and IL-1 versus standard of care on blood …

Discontinuation versus continuation of renin-angiotensin-system inhibitors in COVID-19 (ACEI-COVID): a prospective, parallel group, randomised, controlled, open …

A Bauer, M Schreinlechner, N Sappler… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background SARS-CoV-2 entry in human cells depends on angiotensin-converting enzyme
2, which can be upregulated by inhibitors of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS). We aimed …

High dose subcutaneous Anakinra to treat acute respiratory distress syndrome secondary to cytokine storm syndrome among severely ill COVID-19 patients

E Iglesias-Julian, M Lopez-Veloso… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective Severely ill COVID-19 patients may end in acute respiratory distress syndrome
(ARDS) and multi-organ failure. Some of them develop a systemic hyperinflammatory state …

The right place for IL-1 inhibition in COVID-19

G Cavalli, L Dagna - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2021 - thelancet.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2, has resulted in more than 1· 8 million deaths worldwide as of Jan 7, 2021, a …

COVID-19: combining antiviral and anti-inflammatory treatments

J Stebbing, A Phelan, I Griffin, C Tucker… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
The Lancet, 3 we described how BenevolentAI's proprietary artificial intelligence (AI)-derived
knowledge graph, 4 queried by a suite of algorithms, enabled identification of a target and a …

[HTML][HTML] Use of intravenous immunoglobulin (Prevagen or Octagam) for the treatment of COVID-19: retrospective case series

FJF Herth, G Sakoulas, F Haddad - Respiration, 2021 - karger.com
Abstract Treatment with immunomodulators, such as intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG),
may attenuate inflammatory responses observed in the severe stages of acute respiratory …

High rate of renal recovery in survivors of COVID-19 associated acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy

JS Stevens, KL King, SY Robbins-Juarez… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Introduction A large proportion of patients with COVID-19 develop acute kidney injury (AKI).
While the most severe of these cases require renal replacement therapy (RRT), little is …

Management of acute kidney injury in patients with COVID-19

C Ronco, T Reis, F Husain-Syed - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2020 - thelancet.com
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly evolved into a global
pandemic. Most patients with COVID-19 have mild symptoms, but about 5% develop severe …

Renin‐angiotensin system inhibitors in patients with COVID‐19: a meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials led by the international society of hypertension

SR Gnanenthiran, C Borghi, D Burger… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Published randomized controlled trials are underpowered for binary clinical
end points to assess the safety and efficacy of renin‐angiotensin system inhibitors (RASi) in …