• Open Forum Infect Dis · Oct 2020

    Remdesivir Use Compared With Supportive Care in Hospitalized Patients With Severe COVID-19: A Single-Center Experience.

    • Markos Kalligeros, Karen T Tashima, Evangelia K Mylona, Natasha Rybak, Timothy P Flanigan, Dimitrios Farmakiotis, Curt G Beckwith, Martha Sanchez, Marguerite Neill, Jennie E Johnson, Joseph M Garland, Su Aung, Katrina M Byrd, Thomas O'Brien, Aakriti Pandita, Jad Aridi, Raul Macias Gil, Jerome Larkin, Fadi Shehadeh, and Eleftherios Mylonakis.
    • Infectious Diseases Division, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
    • Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 1; 7 (10): ofaa319.

    BackgroundThe US Food and Drug Administration issued an Emergency Use Authorization for remdesivir use in patients with severe COVID-19.MethodsWe utilized data from 2 quaternary acute care hospitals. The outcomes of interest were the impact of remdesivir on in-hospital death by day 28 and time to recovery, clinical improvement, and discharge. We utilized Cox proportional hazards models and stratified log-rank tests.ResultsTwo hundred twenty-four patients were included in the study. The median age was 59 years; 67.0% were male; 17/125 patients (13.6%) who received supportive care and 7/99 patients (7.1%) who received remdesivir died. The unadjusted risk for 28-day in-hospital death was lower for patients who received remdesivir compared with patients who received supportive care (hazard ratio [HR], 0.42; 95% CI, 0.16-1.08). Although this trend remained the same after adjusting for age, sex, race, and oxygen requirements on admission (adjusted HR [aHR], 0.49; 95% CI, 0.19-1.28), as well as chronic comorbidities and use of corticosteroids (aHR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.16-1.23), it did not reach statistical significance. The use of remdesivir was not associated with an increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) or liver test abnormalities. Although not statistically significant, the rate ratios for time to recovery, clinical improvement, and discharge were higher in women and black or African American patients.ConclusionsPatients on remdesivir had lower, albeit not significant, all-cause in-hospital mortality, and the use of remdesivir did not increase the risk for AKI. Promising signals from this study need to be confirmed by future placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials.© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America.

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