Selvaraj V, Lal A, Finn A, Tanzer JR, Baig M, Jindal A, Dapaah-Afriyie K, Bayliss G. Efficacy of remdesivir for hospitalized COVID-19 patients with end stage renal disease. World J Crit Care Med 2022; 11(1): 48-57 [PMID: 35433306 DOI: 10.5492/wjccm.v11.i1.48]
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Amos Lal, FACP, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States. manavamos@gmail.com
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Urology & Nephrology
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Retrospective Study
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World J Crit Care Med. Jan 9, 2022; 11(1): 48-57 Published online Jan 9, 2022. doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v11.i1.48
Efficacy of remdesivir for hospitalized COVID-19 patients with end stage renal disease
Vijairam Selvaraj, Amos Lal, Arkadiy Finn, Joshua Ray Tanzer, Muhammad Baig, Atin Jindal, Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie, George Bayliss
Vijairam Selvaraj, Arkadiy Finn, Muhammad Baig, Atin Jindal, Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie, Department of Medicine, Miriam Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, United States
Amos Lal, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Joshua Ray Tanzer, Department of Biostatistics Core, Lifespan Group, Providence, RI 02906, United States
George Bayliss, Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and Alpert Medical School, Bayliss, Division of Kidney and Hypertension, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, United States
Author contributions: Selvaraj V, Finn A and Lal A were responsible for the conception and design of the work, screening of papers and drafting the manuscript; Jindal A was responsible for the literature review and contributed to manuscript writing; Tanzer JR and Baig M performed analysis and final approval; Jindal A, Dapaah-Afriyie K and Bayliss G contributed to research oversight, data review and manuscript revision.
Institutional review board statement: Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the IRB of the Miriam Hospital. IRB # 20-054
Informed consent statement: Patients were not required to give informed consent to the study because the analysis used anonymous clinical data that were obtained after each patient agreed to treatment by written consent.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare no conflict of interest.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Amos Lal, FACP, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States. manavamos@gmail.com
Received: June 2, 2021 Peer-review started: June 2, 2021 First decision: July 31, 2021 Revised: August 4, 2021 Accepted: December 23, 2021 Article in press: Deccember 23, 2021 Published online: January 9, 2022 Processing time: 216 Days and 7.4 Hours
ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS
Research background
Little known information exists regarding the efficacy of remdesivir in COVID-19 patients with end stage renal disease on dialysis.
Research motivation
With increasing use of remdesivir in COVID-19 patients we need more information about specific group of patients who could potentially benefit from the use of this medication and its safety profile.
Research objectives
To assess the clinical outcomes with use of remdesivir in adult patients with end stage kidney failure on hemodialysis.
Research methods
A multicenter, retrospective study was conducted on COVID-19 patients with end stage renal disease on hemodialysis that were discharged from the hospital between April 1st and December 31st, 2020. The primary outcomes were oxygen requirements, time to mortality and escalation of care needing mechanical ventilation.
Research results
A total of 45 patients were included in the study. Twenty patients received remdesivir, while 25 patients did not receive remdesivir. Most of the patients were females, Caucasians, and had diabetes mellitus and hypertension as the commonest comorbidities. There was a trend towards reduced oxygen requirement (beta = -25.93, X2 (1) = 6.65, P = 0.0099, probability of requiring mechanical ventilation (beta = -28.52, X2 (1) = 22.98, P < 0.0001) and mortality (beta = -5.03, X2 (1) = 7.41, P = 0.0065) in patients that received remdesivir compared to the control group.
Research conclusions
Larger studies are justified to study the effects of remdesivir in this high-risk population with end stage kidney disease on dialysis.
Research perspectives
We believe that larger studies (both observational and randomized clinical trials) are warranted to further confirm the findings of this study.
