Effectiveness of Tocilizumab in Patients with Severe or Critical Lung Involvement in COVID-19: A Retrospective Study.
Daniel ChoberBogusz Jan Aksak-WąsKatarzyna Bobrek-LesiakowskaAnna Budny-FinsterEwa HołdaJoanna Mieżyńska-KurtyczGrzegorz JamroMiłosz ParczewskiPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2022)
Tocilizumab is effective as a treatment in the most severely ill patients, in whom the level of lung involvement by the inflammatory process can exceed 50% with coexisting biochemical indices of cytokine storm (Il-6 > 100 pg/mL).