[HTML][HTML] Immunomodulators for immunocompromised patients hospitalized for COVID-19: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

II Siempos, AC Kalil, D Belhadi, VC Veiga… - …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Although immunomodulators have established benefit against the new
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in general, it is uncertain whether such agents improve …

[HTML][HTML] Choosing immunomodulating therapies for the treatment of COVID-19: recommendations based on placebo-controlled trial evidence

DA Sweeney, SM Lobo, P Póvoa, AC Kalil - Clinical Microbiology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Immunomodulatory therapy has been extensively studied in randomized
clinical trials for the treatment of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 with inconsistent …

Efficacy and safety of immunomodulators in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

T Ngamprasertchai, R Kajeekul, C Sivakorn… - Infectious Diseases and …, 2022 - Springer
Introduction Many immunomodulators have been studied in clinical trials for the treatment of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, data identifying the most effective and …

Therapeutic role of immunomodulators during the COVID-19 pandemic–a narrative review

H Al-Hajeri, F Baroun, F Abutiban… - Postgraduate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The emergency state caused by COVID-19 saw the use of immunomodulators despite the
absence of robust research. To date, the results of relatively few randomized controlled trials …

Immunomodulators in COVID-19: two sides to every coin

TAC Snow, M Singer, N Arulkumaran - American Journal of …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered precipitous entry of multiple
novel therapeutic candidates into clinical trials often without control groups, randomization …

Immunomodulatory drugs in the management of SARS-CoV-2

DR Burrage, S Koushesh, N Sofat - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
With the onset of the global pandemic in 2020 of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), there has been increasing research activity around certain …

Successful immunomodulators for the treatment of COVID-19 have opened the pathway for comparative trials

JC Gallagher, RL Morgan - Clinical …, 2023 - clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection …
Because coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) became a dominant factor in our daily lives,
we have learned a tremendous amount about it through both study and shared experience …

Routine use of immunosuppressants is associated with mortality in hospitalised patients with COVID-19

PK Myint, B Carter, F Barlow-Pay… - … Advances in Drug …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Whilst there is literature on the impact of SARS viruses in the severely
immunosuppressed, less is known about the link between routine immunosuppressant use …

Immunosuppression as a risk factor for COVID‐19: a meta‐analysis

D Tassone, A Thompson, W Connell… - Internal Medicine …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background While immunosuppression poses a theoretical increase in the risk of COVID‐
19, the nature of this relationship is yet to be ascertained. Aims To determine whether …

Repurposed immunomodulatory drugs for Covid-19 in pre-ICu patients-mulTi-Arm Therapeutic study in pre-ICu patients admitted with Covid-19–Repurposed Drugs …

S Kulkarni, M Fisk, M Kostapanos, E Banham-Hall… - Trials, 2020 - Springer
Objectives To determine if a specific immunomodulatory intervention reduces progression of
COVID-19-related disease to organ failure or death, compared to standard of care (SoC) …