After so many other fragile results with molecules repositioned without great results against Covid-19, could anakinra change the situation? Administered between March 24 and April 6 at Saint-Joseph Hospital (Paris) to about fifty patients suffering from a severe form of Covid-19, this immunomodulatory treatment (marketed under the name of Kineret by the laboratory Swedish Sobi - Swedish Orphan Biovitrum) gave interesting preliminary results.
“Out of nine patients treated with anakinra in our home, only one went to intensive care, which was encouraging
Pr Achille Aouba, head of the internal medicine department at the CHU de CaenThree-quarters of people who received daily subcutaneous injections for 10 days avoided death or went into intensive care, compared to a quarter of a control group of 44 patients treated earlier in the same hospital. These figures were published in The Lancet Rheumatology , a journal which had published earlier in early May, a small Italian study of 29 patients in more or less the same direction. Two other very short series of a few patients invited
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