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Predictors of Mortality Amongst Tocilizumab Administered COVID-19 Asian Indians: A Predictive Study From a Tertiary Care Centre |pdf=|usr=}}{{33717715}} gab.com Text Predictors of Mortality Amongst Tocilizumab Administered COVID-19 Asian Indians: A Predictive Study From a Tertiary Care Centre JO: Cureus http://www.kidney.de/pget.php?&tw=1&pmid=33717715 #FOAvip Introduction Hyper-cytokinemia is a dreaded complication of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) infection and an important predictor of mortality in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The current evidence at best is still ambiguous for use of tocilizumab in cytokine storm in COVID-19. Moreover, the factors that are associated with beneficial response from tocilizumab are unknown in COVID-19. We aimed to study the clinical outcomes especially mortality vis-a-vis clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients administered tocilizumab and identify predictors of mortality benefits amongst deceased vs recovered COVID-19 patients. Methods The present study is a retrospective observation of the demographic, clinical, and biological data of all the consecutive patients treated with tocilizumab for COVID-19 pneumonia at the COVID tertiary care centre from July 2020 to October 2020 at Ahmedabad, India. We compared the deceased group with those who recovered/discharged and evaluated patient-level demographics, clinical attributes, and laboratory investigations available to identify subgroups in whom tocilizumab reduced mortality. Results Of the 112 patients included, the mean (SD) age was 56.84 +/- 13.56 years and 80 (71.4%) were male. There were 97 (86.6%) patients in the survivors and 15 (13.39%) in the deceased group. Deceased were older than the recovered group (mean: 66.14, SD: 14.41 vs mean: 55.36, SD: 12.98; p=0.04). Hypertension (33.03%) was the commonest comorbidity observed. Mortality was significantly higher in patients with cancer and type-2 diabetes (p=0.05 and p=0.01, respectively). Level of D-dimer and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) showed trends towards significance as a predictor of mortality (p=0.07 and p=0.08, respectively) not reaching significance. D-dimer level > 5,000 nanograms per millilitre (ng/mL) was the significant predictor of subsequent deaths (p<0.0001). Fourteen patients reported adverse events of tocilizumab. Patients who developed in-hospital complications (such as septic or vasodilatory shock and/or sepsis, acute kidney injury, multiorgan dysfunction) had significantly higher mortality (p<0.0001, p=0.009, and p=0.03, respectively). Conclusion Tocilizumab might be more beneficial in younger patients without sepsis/ septic shock, acute kidney injury, multiorgan dysfunction, and who were non-ventilated. The predictors of mortality amongst Asian Indians treated with tocilizumab were older patients, the presence of type-2 diabetes, cancer, in-hospital complication (such as acute kidney injury, sepsis/septic shock, multiorgan dysfunction), higher D-dimer > 5,000 ng/mL. A larger study with pre-defined inclusion cut-offs of these variables may aid in defining patient's characteristics of Asian Indians who may benefit from tocilizumab in COVID-19. Twit Text FOAVip Predictors of Mortality Amongst Tocilizumab Administered COVID-19 Asian Indians: A Predictive Study From a Tertiary Care Centre ????Cureus http://www.kidney.de/pget.php?&tw=1&pmid=33717715 #FOAvip Twit Text # Free Paper on # # # # # LINK http://www.kidney.de/pget.php?&tw=1&pmid=33717715 #FOAvip English Wikipedia <ref>{{Cite pmid|33717715}}</ref> Predictors of Mortality Amongst Tocilizumab Administered COVID-19 Asian Indians: A Predictive Study From a Tertiary Care Centre #MMPMID33717715 Desai HD; Sharma K; Parikh A; Patel K; Trivedi J; Desai R; Patel PP; Patel Z; Patel S; Kini S Cureus 2021[Feb]; 13 (2): e13116 PMID33717715show ga Introduction Hyper-cytokinemia is a dreaded complication of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) infection and an important predictor of mortality in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The current evidence at best is still ambiguous for use of tocilizumab in cytokine storm in COVID-19. Moreover, the factors that are associated with beneficial response from tocilizumab are unknown in COVID-19. We aimed to study the clinical outcomes especially mortality vis-a-vis clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients administered tocilizumab and identify predictors of mortality benefits amongst deceased vs recovered COVID-19 patients. Methods The present study is a retrospective observation of the demographic, clinical, and biological data of all the consecutive patients treated with tocilizumab for COVID-19 pneumonia at the COVID tertiary care centre from July 2020 to October 2020 at Ahmedabad, India. We compared the deceased group with those who recovered/discharged and evaluated patient-level demographics, clinical attributes, and laboratory investigations available to identify subgroups in whom tocilizumab reduced mortality. Results Of the 112 patients included, the mean (SD) age was 56.84 +/- 13.56 years and 80 (71.4%) were male. There were 97 (86.6%) patients in the survivors and 15 (13.39%) in the deceased group. Deceased were older than the recovered group (mean: 66.14, SD: 14.41 vs mean: 55.36, SD: 12.98; p=0.04). Hypertension (33.03%) was the commonest comorbidity observed. Mortality was significantly higher in patients with cancer and type-2 diabetes (p=0.05 and p=0.01, respectively). Level of D-dimer and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) showed trends towards significance as a predictor of mortality (p=0.07 and p=0.08, respectively) not reaching significance. D-dimer level > 5,000 nanograms per millilitre (ng/mL) was the significant predictor of subsequent deaths (p<0.0001). Fourteen patients reported adverse events of tocilizumab. Patients who developed in-hospital complications (such as septic or vasodilatory shock and/or sepsis, acute kidney injury, multiorgan dysfunction) had significantly higher mortality (p<0.0001, p=0.009, and p=0.03, respectively). Conclusion Tocilizumab might be more beneficial in younger patients without sepsis/ septic shock, acute kidney injury, multiorgan dysfunction, and who were non-ventilated. The predictors of mortality amongst Asian Indians treated with tocilizumab were older patients, the presence of type-2 diabetes, cancer, in-hospital complication (such as acute kidney injury, sepsis/septic shock, multiorgan dysfunction), higher D-dimer > 5,000 ng/mL. A larger study with pre-defined inclusion cut-offs of these variables may aid in defining patient's characteristics of Asian Indians who may benefit from tocilizumab in COVID-19. äPredictors of Mortality Amongst Tocilizumab Administered COVID-19 Asia(epmc).pdf DeepDyve Pubget Overpricing