Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), Peking Union Medical College Hospital, The Ministry of Education Key Laboratory, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Beijing 100730, China.
Clinical Immunology Centre, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China; Department of Infectious Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing 100730, China; Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for COVID-19, Wu Han Tong Ji Hospital, Wuhan City, Hubei Province 200065, China.
Clin Immunol. 2020 May;214:108393. doi: 10.1016/j.clim.2020.108393. Epub 2020 Mar 25.
The pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is rapidly spreading all over the world. Reports from China showed that about 20% of patients developed severe disease, resulting in a fatality of 4%. In the past two months, we clinical immunologists participated in multi-rounds of MDT (multidiscipline team) discussion on the anti-inflammation management of critical COVID-19 patients, with our colleagues dispatched from Chinese leading PUMC Hospital to Wuhan to admit and treat the most severe patients. Here, from the perspective of clinical immunologists, we will discuss the clinical and immunological characteristics of severe patients, and summarize the current evidence and share our experience in anti-inflammation treatment, including glucocorticoids, IL-6 antagonist, JAK inhibitors and choloroquine/hydrocholoroquine, of patients with severe COVID-19 that may have an impaired immune system.
2019 年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)的大流行在全球迅速蔓延。中国的报告显示,约 20%的患者出现严重疾病,导致死亡率为 4%。在过去的两个月中,我们临床免疫学家参与了多轮关于重症 COVID-19 患者抗炎管理的多学科团队(MDT)讨论,我们的同事从中国领先的 PUMC 医院派遣到武汉收治最严重的患者。在这里,从临床免疫学家的角度出发,我们将讨论重症患者的临床和免疫学特征,并总结目前的证据,分享我们在抗炎治疗方面的经验,包括重症 COVID-19 患者可能受损的免疫系统中使用的糖皮质激素、IL-6 拮抗剂、JAK 抑制剂和氯喹/羟氯喹。