Use of glucocorticoids megadoses in SARS-CoV-2 infection in a spanish registry: SEMI-COVID-19

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 17; no. 1; p. e0261711
• Main Authors: Cristina Lavilla Olleros, Cristina Ausín García, Alejandro David Bendala Estrada, Ana Muñoz, Philip Erick Wikman Jogersen, Ana Fernández Cruz, Vicente Giner Galvañ, Juan Antonio Vargas, José Miguel Seguí Ripoll, Manuel Rubio-Rivas, Rodrigo Miranda Godoy, Luis Mérida Rodrigo, Eva Fonseca Aizpuru, Francisco Arnalich Fernández, Arturo Artero, Jose Loureiro Amigo, Gema María García García, Luis Corral Gudino, Jose Jiménez Torres, José-Manuel Casas-Rojo, Jesús Millán Núñez-Cortés, SEMI-COVID-19 Network
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 01.01.2022

ObjectiveTo describe the impact of different doses of corticosteroids on the evolution of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, based on the potential benefit of the non-genomic mechanism of these drugs at higher doses.MethodsObservational study using data collected from the SEMI-COVID-19 Registry. We e...