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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023

Sustained Treatment Response after Intravenous Cyclophosphamide in a Patient with Therapy-Resistant COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Case Report.

Patrick Haselwanter, Christina Bal, Daniela Gompelmann, Marco Idzko, Helmut Prosch, Christian Zauner, Mathias Schneeweiss-Gleixner

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Patrick HaselwanterDepartment of Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Christina BalDepartment of Medicine II, Division of Pulmonology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Daniela GompelmannDepartment of Medicine II, Division of Pulmonology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Marco IdzkoDepartment of Medicine II, Division of Pulmonology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Helmut ProschDepartment of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Division of General and Paediatric Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Christian ZaunerDepartment of Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-9585-5903
Mathias Schneeweiss-GleixnerDepartment of Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) represents a severe complication of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and is often challenging in intensive care treatment. Potential positive effects of intravenous cyclophosphamide have been reported in interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). However, there are no data on the use of high-dose cyclophosphamide in therapy-resistant COVID-19 ARDS. We report the case of a 32-year-old male patient admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Medical University of Vienna due to severe COVID-19 ARDS who required venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) with a total runtime of 85 days. Despite all these therapeutic efforts, he remained in a condition of therapy-resistant ARDS. Unfortunately, the patient was denied for lung transplantation. However, a significant improvement in his respiratory condition was achieved after the administration of an intravenous regimen of cyclophosphamide and prednisolone. After a period of consecutive stabilization, the patient was transferred to the normal ward after 125 days of intensive care treatment. There is a substantial lack of therapeutic options in therapy-resistant ARDS. Our case report suggests that cyclophosphamide may represent a new treatment strategy in therapy-resistant ARDS. Due to its severe adverse effect profile, cyclophosphamide should be used after careful evaluation of a patient's general condition.

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COVID-19cyclophosphamideICUinterstitial lung diseasetherapy-resistant ARDS

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