Relation

Severe COVID-19 cases and the impact of tocilizumab

  • Patients with severe cases of COVID-19 were given tocilizumab
  • Tocilizumab lowered the patients’ body temperature, this returning the fever to normal (after 1 day)
  • 15/20 patients required less oxygen therapy (after 5 days)
  • The lymphocyte count (in peripheral blood) in about half the patients returned to the normal range
  • Lowered C-reactive protein to a safe level in 16/19 patients
  • All the patients were discharged after approximately 15 days

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Updated 2020-08-05

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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)

Biomedical Sciences