From publications to every day clinical practice: tocilizumab in patients with severe COVID-19.

Introduction: there is evidence on the effectiveness and safety of tocilizumab (TZC) used in combination with systemic corticosteroids for severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia treatment. The purpose of this study was to describe epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory features as well as clinical outcome of patients receiving this combination therapy compared with those receiving only corticosteroids.

Methods: a retrospective cohort study, which included adults with severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, was conducted between March and August 2021.

Tocilizumab for COVID-19 treatment. An Argentine report.

Recently it has been demonstrated the clinical effectiveness of tocilizumab (TCZ) associated with systemic steroids for the treatment of severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia with rapid progression. The objective of this work was to describe the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory and evolution characteristics of the patients who received this treatment. Between March and June 2021, TCZ was administered in a cohort study of adults with severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, in a private hospital in the City of Buenos Aires; 30 patients were included, 63% men, middle age 55 years.