Tomas Urbina, Jean-Rémi Lavillegrand, Marc Garnier, Arsene Mekinian, Jerome Pacanowski, Nathalie Mario, Guillaume Dumas, Geoffroy Hariri, Antoine Pilon, Lucie Darrivère, Muriel Fartoukh, Bertrand Guidet, Eric Maury, Judith Leblanc, Yannick Chantran, Olivier Fain, Karine Lacombe, Guillaume Voiriot, Hafid Ait-Oufella
Little is known about the immuno-inflammatory response to Tocilizumab and its association with outcome in critically-ill SARS-CoV2 pneumonia. In this multicenter retrospective cohort of SARS-CoV-2 patients admitted to three intensive care units between March and April 2020, we matched on gender and SAPS II 21 Tocilizumab-treated patients to 42 non-treated patients. Need for mechanical ventilation was 76% versus 79%. IL-6, C-reactive protein, and fibrinogen had been collected within the first days of admission (T1), 3 d (T2) and 7 d (T3) later...
January 28, 2022: Innate Immunity