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SUBMITTER: West TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7436606 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
West Timothy A TA Malik Sameer S Nalpantidis Anastasios A Tran Tuan T Cannon Christine C Bhonagiri Deepak D Chan Kevin K Cheong Elaine E Wan Sai Cheong Jenny J Cheung Winston W Choudhury Faisal F Ernest David D Farah Claude S CS Fernando Shelanah S Kanapathipillai Rupa R Kol Mark M Murfin Brendan B Naqvi Haider H Shah Asim A Wagh Atul A Ojaimi Samar S Frankum Bradley B Riminton Sean S Keat Karuna K
International journal of rheumatic diseases 20200801 8
<h4>Aim</h4>To describe the first Australian cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) disease (COVID-19) pneumonia treated with the interleukin-6 receptor antagonist tocilizumab.<h4>Methods</h4>Retrospective, open-label, real-world, uncontrolled, single-arm case series conducted in 2 tertiary hospitals in NSW, Australia and 1 tertiary hospital in Victoria, Australia. Five adult male patients aged between 46 and 74 years with type 1 respiratory failure due to COVID-19 ...[more]