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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Prognostic Impact of COVID-19 Inflammation Score Response: A Sub-Group Analysis on Critically Ill Patients of the RuxCoFlam Trial.

Manfred Weiss, Jakob Hammersen, Sebastian Rudolphi, Isabell Formann, Karl Träger, Frank G Rücker, Beate Grüner, Andreas Allgöwer, Sebastian Birndt, Christian Fabisch and 4 more

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04338958 (A Phase-II Clinical Trial for First Line Treatment of Stage II/III Covid-19 Patients to Treat Hyperinflammation), which is not on this map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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NCT04338958 phase2completednot on this map

A Phase-II Clinical Trial for First Line Treatment of Stage II/III Covid-19 Patients to Treat Hyperinflammation

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of JenaRan2020 to 2021Enrolled193ConditionsCovid-19ArmsRuxolitinib
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14 authors.

Manfred WeissKlinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Jakob HammersenKlinik für Innere Medizin II, Hämatologie und Internistische Onkologie, Universitätsklinikum Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Sebastian RudolphiKlinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Isabell FormannKlinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Karl TrägerKlinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0973-5575
Frank G RückerKlinik für Innere Medizin III, Hämatologie, Onkologie, Palliativmedizin, Rheumatologie und Infektionskrankheiten, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Beate GrünerKlinik für Innere Medizin III, Hämatologie, Onkologie, Palliativmedizin, Rheumatologie und Infektionskrankheiten, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6669-3741
Andreas AllgöwerInstitute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, 89075 Ulm, Germany.
Sebastian BirndtKlinik für Innere Medizin II, Hämatologie und Internistische Onkologie, Universitätsklinikum Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5430-899X
Christian FabischKlinik für Innere Medizin II, Hämatologie und Internistische Onkologie, Universitätsklinikum Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Andreas HochhausKlinik für Innere Medizin II, Hämatologie und Internistische Onkologie, Universitätsklinikum Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany.
Konstanze DöhnerKlinik für Innere Medizin III, Hämatologie, Onkologie, Palliativmedizin, Rheumatologie und Infektionskrankheiten, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Paul La RoséeKlinik für Innere Medizin II, Hämatologie, Onkologie, Immunologie, Infektiologie und Palliativmedizin, Schwarzwald-Baar Klinikum, 78052 Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6758-7809
Frank StegelmannKlinik für Innere Medizin III, Hämatologie, Onkologie, Palliativmedizin, Rheumatologie und Infektionskrankheiten, Universitätsklinikum Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aims to identify parameters predicting COVID-19 inflammation score (CIS) response and survival probability in critically ill patients with hyperinflammation treated with the Janus kinase (JAK) 1/2 inhibitor ruxolitinib. This is a single arm, non-randomized, open-label, phase-II study for frontline treatment in adults in the intensive care unit (ICU). Ninety-two critically ill COVID-19 patients with CIS ≥ 10 were treated in the RuxCoFlam trial (NCT04338958) with ruxolitinib between April 2020 and June 2021. Median ICU treatment duration was 15 days (range, 2-73). Out of 81 evaluable patients, 62 (77%) showed CIS reduction ≥ 25% on day 7 (CIS response). In multiple logistic regression analyses, higher CIS on day 0 (odds ratio (OR), 1.56; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.01-2.41;

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COVID-19critically illcytokine stormhyperinflammationJAK inhibitorsmortality

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