ArticleiScience2021
Effect of time and titer in convalescent plasma therapy for COVID-19.
Article in iScience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Convalescent plasma may not be an effective treatment for severe and critically ill covid-19 patients: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Heart & lung : the journal of critical carePooled it
- Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody-containing plasma improves outcome in patients with hematologic or solid cancer and severe COVID-19: a randomized clinical trial.Nature cancer · 2023Trial
- One-year follow-up of the CAPSID randomized trial for high-dose convalescent plasma in severe COVID-19 patients.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2022Trial
- Outcome of SARS CoV-2 inpatients treated with convalescent plasma: One-year of data from the Veneto region (Italy) Registry.European journal of internal medicine · 2022Trial
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- Repertoires of SARS-CoV-2 epitopes targeted by antibodies vary according to severity of COVID-19.Virulence · 2022Article
- COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma and Clinical Trials: Understanding Conflicting Outcomes.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2022Review
- A comprehensive insight into current control of COVID-19: Immunogenicity, vaccination, and treatment.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2022Review
- Use of Early Donated COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Is Optimal to Preserve the Integrity of Lymphatic Endothelial Cells.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The immunology and immunotherapy for COVID-19.Expert reviews in molecular medicine · 2021Review
- Safety and Efficacy of Convalescent Plasma in COVID-19: An Overview of Systematic Reviews.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The clinical benefit of convalescent plasma (CP) for patients with coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 is still debated. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we selected 10 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and 15 non-randomized studies (total number of patients = 22,591) of CP treatment and evaluated two different scenarios: (1) disease stage of plasma recipients and (2) donated plasma antibody titer, considering all-cause mortality at the latest follow-up. Our results show that, when provided at early stages of the disease, CP significantly reduced mortality: risk ratio (RR) 0.72 (0.68, 0.77), p < 0.00001, while provided in severe or critical conditions, it did not (RR: 0.94 [0.86, 1.04], p = 0.22). On the other hand, the benefit on mortality was not increased by using plasma with a high-antibody titer compared with unselected plasma. This meta-analysis might promote CP usage in patients with early-stage COVID-19 in further RCTs to maximize its benefit in decreasing mortality, especially in less affluent countries.
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