1. Blockage of interleukin-1β with canakinumab in patients with Covid-19
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Lorenza Landi, Claudia Ravaglia, Emanuele Russo, Pierluigi Cataleta, Maurizio Fusari, Andrea Boschi, Diana Giannarelli, Francesca Facondini, Ilaria Valentini, Ilaria Panzini, Luigi Lazzari-Agli, Paolo Bassi, Elisa Marchionni, Rossella Romagnoli, Raffaella De Giovanni, Marina Assirelli, Federica Baldazzi, Fabio Pieraccini, Giovanna Rametta, Lucia Rossi, Luca Santini, Ivana Valenti, and Federico Cappuzzo
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Abstract There is the urgent need to study the effects of immunomodulating agents as therapy for Covid-19. An observational, cohort, prospective study with 30 days of observation was carried out to assess clinical outcomes in 88 patients hospitalized for Covid-19 pneumonia and treated with canakinumab (300 mg sc). Median time from diagnosis of Covid-19 by viral swab to administration of canakinumab was 7.5 days (range 0–30, IQR 4–11). Median PaO2/FiO2 increased from 160 (range 53–409, IQR 122–210) at baseline to 237 (range 72–533, IQR 158–331) at day 7 after treatment with canakinumab (p
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- 2020
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