Effect of tocilizumab on clinical outcomes at 15 days in patients with severe or critical coronavirus disease 2019: randomised controlled trial

VC Veiga, JAGG Prats, DLC Farias, RG Rosa… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To determine whether tocilizumab improves clinical outcomes for patients with
severe or critical coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19). Design Randomised, open label trial …

[HTML][HTML] Combination of tocilizumab and steroids to improve mortality in patients with severe COVID-19 infection: a Spanish, multicenter, cohort study

B Ruiz-Antorán, A Sancho-López, F Torres… - Infectious diseases and …, 2021 - Springer
Background We aimed to determine the impact of tocilizumab use on severe COVID-19
(coronavirus disease 19) pneumonia mortality. Methods We performed a multicentre …

[HTML][HTML] Tocilizumab in COVID-19: a meta-analysis, trial sequential analysis, and meta-regression of randomized-controlled trials

TAC Snow, N Saleem, G Ambler, E Nastouli… - Intensive Care …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose Interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels discriminate between patients with mild and
severe COVID-19, making IL-6 inhibition an attractive therapeutic strategy. We conducted a …

[HTML][HTML] Tocilizumab in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a meta analysis of randomized controlled trials

V Selvaraj, MS Khan, C Bavishi, K Dapaah-Afriyie… - Lung, 2021 - Springer
Background To date, only dexamethasone has been shown to reduce mortality in
coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) patients. Tocilizumab has been recently added to the …

Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial

J Chalmers, H Abo-Leyah, H Loftus, M Spears… - …, 2021 - discovery.dundee.ac.uk
Background In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effects of tocilizumab in adult patients
admitted to hospital with COVID-19 with both hypoxia and systemic inflammation. Methods …

[HTML][HTML] Early use of low dose tocilizumab in patients with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study with a complete follow-up

N De Rossi, C Scarpazza, C Filippini, C Cordioli… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Pneumonia with severe respiratory failure represents the principal cause of
death in COVID-19, where hyper-inflammation plays an important role in lung damage. An …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of tocilizumab in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia: a case-control cohort study

B Rossi, LS Nguyen, P Zimmermann, F Boucenna… - Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Tocilizumab, an anti-interleukin-6 receptor, administrated during the right timeframe may be
beneficial against coronavirus-disease-2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. All patients admitted …

Efficacy and safety of Tocilizumab in severe and critical COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

S Rezaei, B Fatemi, Z Karimi Majd… - Expert review of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives Currently published papers and clinical guidelines regarding the effects of
tocilizumab in severe and critical COVID-19 are contradictory. The aim of this meta-analysis …

[HTML][HTML] Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial

O Abani, A Abbas, F Abbas, M Abbas, S Abbasi… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effects of tocilizumab in adult patients
admitted to hospital with COVID-19 with both hypoxia and systemic inflammation. Methods …

[HTML][HTML] Tocilizumab for treatment of patients with severe COVID–19: A retrospective cohort study

T Kewan, F Covut, MJ Al–Jaghbeer, L Rose… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Tocilizumab was approved for chimeric antigen receptor T–cell therapy induced
cytokine release syndrome and it may provide clinical benefit for selected COVID–19 …