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Giacomo De Luca

Researcher at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

Publications -  122
Citations -  3913

Giacomo De Luca is an academic researcher from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 81 publications receiving 2318 citations. Previous affiliations of Giacomo De Luca include The Catholic University of America & Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.

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Efficacy and safety of tocilizumab in severe COVID-19 patients: a single-centre retrospective cohort study.

TL;DR: Clinical improvement and mortality were not statistically significant different between tocilizumab and standard treatment patients in this retrospective study on severe COVID-19 patients with hyper-inflammatory features.
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Secondary infections in patients hospitalized with COVID-19: incidence and predictive factors.

TL;DR: Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had a high incidence of secondary infections and early need for ICU, respiratory failure, and severe lymphopenia, were identified as risk factors for secondary infections.
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Interleukin-6 blockade with sarilumab in severe COVID-19 pneumonia with systemic hyperinflammation: an open-label cohort study.

TL;DR: Overall clinical improvement and mortality in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia were not significantly different between sarilumab and standard of care and Sariluab was associated with faster recovery in a subset of patients showing minor lung consolidation at baseline.
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Sarilumab in patients admitted to hospital with severe or critical COVID-19: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial.

François-Xavier Lescure, +297 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the safety and efficacy of sarilumab, an interleukin-6 receptor inhibitor, in patients with severe (requiring supplemental oxygen by nasal cannula or face mask) or critical(requiring greater supplemental oxygen, mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal support) COVID-19.