Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-11-2022
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected over 200 million patients worldwide. COVID-19 is transmitted through respiratory droplets from patient to patient or by touching a surface that has been contaminated by an infected patient. Many COVID-19 patients have other comorbidities, such as end-stage renal disease. Currently, management of COVID-19 in patients with end-stage renal disease is unclear. Some studies have shown improvement in this population with the use of tocilizumab, a humanized interleukin-6 monoclonal antibody, in addition to the standard therapy as per guidelines published by the National Institutes of Health. In this case report, we present a patient case where the use of remdesivir, tocilizumab, and pulse-dose methylprednisolone significantly improved symptoms and inflammatory biomarkers associated with COVID-19 in a patient with end-stage renal disease.
Recommended Citation
Judge, Ramzan; Kolaski, Stephanie; and Qadeer, Farhan, "Use of tocilizumab, remdesivir, and high-dose methylprednisolone prevents intubation in an ESRD patient with COVID-19 pneumonia" (2022). College of Pharmacy Faculty Papers. Paper 49.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/pharmacyfp/49
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
PubMed ID
35035974
Language
English
Comments
This article is the author’s final published version in SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, Volume 10, January 2022, Pages 1-5.
The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/2050313X211069023. Copyright © Judge et al.