Abstract
Little is known about the immuno-inflammatory response to Tocilizumab and its association with outcome in critically-ill SARS-CoV2 pneumonia. In this multicenter retrospective cohort of SARS-CoV-2 patients admitted to three intensive care units between March and April 2020, we matched on gender and SAPS II 21 Tocilizumab-treated patients to 42 non-treated patients. Need for mechanical ventilation was 76% versus 79%. IL-6, C-reactive protein, and fibrinogen had been collected within the first days of admission (T1), 3 d (T2) and 7 d (T3) later. Tocilizumab-treated patients had persistently higher IL-6 plasma levels and persistently lower C-Reactive protein and fibrinogen levels. Among Tocilizumab-treated patients, baseline levels of inflammatory biomarkers were not different according to outcome. Conversely, C-reactive protein and fibrinogen decrease was delayed in non-survivors. C-Reactive protein decreased at T1 in survivors (45 [30-98] vs 170 [69-204] mg/l, P < 0.001) but only at T2 in non-survivors (37 [13-74] vs 277 [235-288], P = 0.03). Fibrinogen decreased at T2 in survivors (4.11 [3.58-4.69] vs 614 [5.61-7.85] g/l, P = 0.005) but not in non-survivors (4.79 [4.12-7.58] vs 7.24 [6.22-9.24] g/l, P = 0.125). Tocilizumab treatment was thus associated with a persistent both increase in plasma IL-6, and decrease in C-reactive protein and fibrinogen. Among Tocilizumab-treated patients, the decrease in inflammatory biomarkers was delayed in non-survivors.
Keywords: C-reactive protein; SARS-CoV-2; Tocilizumab; cytokine; intensive care unit.
【저자키워드】 SARS-CoV-2, Tocilizumab, C-reactive protein, cytokine, intensive care unit., 【초록키워드】 Treatment, SARS-CoV2, intensive care, mechanical ventilation, Tocilizumab, Pneumonia, IL-6, intensive care unit, Gender, C-reactive protein, outcome, Protein, Patient, plasma, fibrinogen, multicenter, persistent, Admission, patients, association, inflammatory biomarkers, SARS-CoV-2 patients, Inflammatory biomarker, Plasma levels, Non-survivors, Fibrinogen levels, baseline levels, retrospective cohort, survivor, decrease, non-survivor, collected, increase in, not different, baseline level, immuno-inflammatory, SARS-CoV-2 patient, 【제목키워드】 Inflammation, Mortality, Critically ill, retrospective, Analysis, Delayed, decrease,