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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

Convalescent Plasma Efficacy in Life-Threatening COVID-19 Patients Admitted to the ICU: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Mohamed Abuzakouk, Khaled Saleh, Manuel Algora, Ahmad Nusair, Jawahir Alameri, Fatema Alshehhi, Sara Alkhaja, Mohamed Badr, Khaled Abdallah, Bruno De Oliveira and 15 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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25 authors.

Mohamed AbuzakoukDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Khaled SalehCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Manuel AlgoraCleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
Ahmad NusairMedical Subspecialties Institute-Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Jawahir AlameriEducation Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Fatema AlshehhiEducation Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Sara AlkhajaEducation Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Mohamed BadrCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Khaled AbdallahCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Bruno De OliveiraCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Ashraf NadeemCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Yeldho VargheseCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Dnyaseshwar MundeCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Shameen SalamCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Baraa AbduljawadCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Hussam ElkambergyCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Ali WahlaCleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
Ahmed TahaCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Jamil DibuCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Ahmed BayrleeCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Fadi HamedCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Laila AbdelWarethPathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Nadeem RahmanCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Jorge GuzmanCritical Care Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 112412, United Arab Emirates.
Jihad MallatCleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6372-7360

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: There are limited data regarding the efficacy of convalescent plasma (CP) in critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We aimed to determine whether CP is associated with better clinical outcome among these patients. (2) Methods: A retrospective single-center study including adult patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted to the ICU for acute respiratory failure. The primary outcome was time to clinical improvement, within 28 days, defined as patient discharged alive or reduction of 2 points on a 6-point disease severity scale. (3) Results: Overall, 110 COVID-19 patients were admitted. Thirty-two patients (29%) received CP; among them, 62.5% received at least one CP with high neutralizing antibody titers (≥1:160). Clinical improvement occurred within 28 days in 14 patients (43.7%) of the CP group vs. 48 patients (61.5%) in the non-CP group (hazard ratio (HR): 0.75 (95% CI: 0.41-1.37),

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convalescent plasmacritically illintensive care unitlife-threatening COVID-19mechanical ventilationneutralizing antibodySARS-CoV-2

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PMID34068847
PMCPMC8153619

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