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ArticleMicroorganisms2020

Tocilizumab for Treatment of Severe COVID-19 Patients: Preliminary Results from SMAtteo COvid19 REgistry (SMACORE).

Marta Colaneri, Laura Bogliolo, Pietro Valsecchi, Paolo Sacchi, Valentina Zuccaro, Fabio Brandolino, Carlomaurizio Montecucco, Francesco Mojoli, Emanuele Maria Giusti, Raffaele Bruno and 1 more

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Article in Microorganisms, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 127 papers, 20 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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127citing papers in PubMed, 20 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

127 citing papers in PubMed, 20 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Tocilizumab and Systemic Corticosteroids in the Management of Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021
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  11. Efficacy and safety of tocilizumab in COVID-19 patients: a living systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2021
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  16. Guidelines for COVID-19 Management in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Recipients.Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation · 2020
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  18. Tocilizumab for severe COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of antimicrobial agents · 2020
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67 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Marta ColaneriDivision of Infectious Diseases I, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Laura BoglioloDivision of Rheumatology, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Pietro ValsecchiDivision of Infectious Diseases I, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Paolo SacchiDivision of Infectious Diseases I, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Valentina ZuccaroDivision of Infectious Diseases I, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Fabio BrandolinoDivision of Rheumatology, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Carlomaurizio MontecuccoDivision of Rheumatology, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo Foundation, 27100 Pavia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8263-3925
Francesco MojoliDepartment of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic, and Paediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Emanuele Maria GiustiCatholic University of Milan, Department of Psychology, 20123 Milan, Italy.
Raffaele BrunoDivision of Infectious Diseases I, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, 27100 Pavia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0235-9207
The Covid Irccs San Matteo Pavia Task ForceDivision of Infectious Diseases I, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, 27100 Pavia, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19 pneumoniaICUmortality rateoff label therapypropensity score matchingtocilizumab

Identifiers

PMID32397399
PMCPMC7285503

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