A Randomized Trial of Convalescent Plasma in Covid-19 Severe Pneumonia

Hospitalized adults with severe Covid-19 pneumonia were randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio to receive convalescent plasma or placebo. At 30 days, no significant difference in clinical status was noted between the two groups. Overall mortality was 11.43% with placebo and 10.96% with convalescent plasma...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 2021-02, Vol.384 (7), p.619-629
Hauptverfasser: Simonovich, Ventura A, Burgos Pratx, Leandro D, Scibona, Paula, Beruto, María V, Vallone, Marcelo G, Vázquez, Carolina, Savoy, Nadia, Giunta, Diego H, Pérez, Lucía G, Sánchez, Marisa del L, Gamarnik, Andrea Vanesa, Ojeda, Diego S, Santoro, Diego M, Camino, Pablo J, Antelo, Sebastian, Rainero, Karina, Vidiella, Gabriela P, Miyazaki, Erica A, Cornistein, Wanda, Trabadelo, Omar A, Ross, Fernando M, Spotti, Mariano, Funtowicz, Gabriel, Scordo, Walter E, Losso, Marcelo H, Ferniot, Inés, Pardo, Pablo E, Rodriguez, Eulalia, Rucci, Pablo, Pasquali, Julieta, Fuentes, Nora A, Esperatti, Mariano, Speroni, Gerardo A, Nannini, Esteban C, Matteaccio, Alejandra, Michelangelo, Hernán G, Follmann, Dean, Lane, H. Clifford, Belloso, Waldo H
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Zusammenfassung:Hospitalized adults with severe Covid-19 pneumonia were randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio to receive convalescent plasma or placebo. At 30 days, no significant difference in clinical status was noted between the two groups. Overall mortality was 11.43% with placebo and 10.96% with convalescent plasma, a difference that was not significant.
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa2031304