Article
Immunocompromised patients have been neglected in COVID-19 trials: a call for action
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TRØSEID, Marius et al. Immunocompromised patients have been neglected in COVID-19 trials: a call for action. Clinical microbiology and infection, v. 28, n. 9, p. 1182-1183, 2022.
1469-0691
10.1016/j.cmi.2022.05.005
Autor
Trøseid, Marius
Hentzien, Maxime
Ader, Florence
Cardoso, Sandra Wagner
Arribas, Jose R.
Molina, Jean-Michel
Mueller, Nicolas
Hites, Maya
Bonnet, Fabrice
Manuel, Oriol
Costagliola, Dominique
Grinsztejn, Beatriz
Olsen, Inge Christoffer
Yazdapanah, Yazdan
Calmy, Alexandra
Resumen
Although several innovative and repurposed drugs have been
approved for the treatment of COVID-19 during the last year, we
still do not have evidence-based knowledge on the best therapeutic
strategy to treat immunocompromised patients. Most treatment
guidelines are structured to whether the disease state is mild,
moderate, or severe, and not sufficiently according to host factors
including host immunity. Whereas the Omicron variant causes less
severe diseases in the general population, this is not necessarily the
case for individuals with an impaired immune system, such as organ transplant recipients, patients with hematological malignancies, active cancer or primary immunodeficiency, or
individuals treated with immunosuppressive drugs for a variety of
medical conditions.