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. 2020 Dec 19;2020:8827670. doi: 10.1155/2020/8827670

(a) Clinical trials with result disclosures

Product Benefits for COVID-19 ClinicalTrials.gov reference number Reference
Dexamethasone/methyl prednisolone Corticosteroids: reduce hyperinflammation and mortality rates NCT04445506; NCT04323592; NCT04244591; NCT04273321; NCT04374071 Gangopadhyay et al./Chroboczek et al./Ledford/Wang et al. [131134]
Convalescent plasma Antibodies from plasma: reduce viral load, days of hospitalization, and the number of deaths. Increase of effector T cell responses helping in viral elimination NCT04407208; NCT04346446; NCT04441424; NCT04442958 Vabret et al./Shang et al. [30, 108]
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine Antiviral compounds with immunomodulatory effect: without proven effectiveness or potential benefit in COVID-19 NCT04307693; NCT04261517; NCT04434144; NCT04345861; NCT04376814; NCT04343768; NCT04423991; NCT04389320; NCT04441424; NCT04308668; NCT04323592; NCT04306497; NCT04362332; NCT04342650; NCT04323527; NCT04358068; NCT04321278; NCT04333654; NCT04475588; NCT04453501; NCT04308668; NCT04304053 Vabret et al./Zhang et al. [30, 111]
Ivermectin Antiviral compounds with immunomodulatory effect: reduce mortality rates. Possible effect on raising antibody production and leukocytes NCT04343092; NCT04434144 Rajter et al. [114]
Oseltamivir Antiviral compounds with immunomodulatory effect: reduce the hospitalization days for COVID-19 patients NCT04349241 Coenen et al. [119]
Interferon β-1b Cytokine-directed therapy: combined with other antivirals, reduces the duration of viral shedding, days of hospitalization and mitigation of symptoms NCT04343768; NCT04276688 Shalhoub [125]
Anti-IL-6 and anti-IL-6R (Tocilizumab/Siltuximab) Inhibition/blockade of immune response pathways: combined with other antivirals, presented resolution on lung opacities on chest computed tomography and hospital discharge using tocilizumab NCT04331795; NCT04346355; NCT04322188 Xu et al. [138]
Heparin Anticoagulants: a preliminary study with D-dimer elevation levels, high platelet count in severe COVID-19 NCT04412304 Zhang et al. [111]
Azithromycin Antibiotics: used as an adjuvant in therapies with antiviral drugs and immunomodulatory components to avoid secondary infections in hospitalized patients, with good results in mortality reduction and intubation shortening time NCT04345861; NCT04434144; NCT04343092; NCT04441424; NCT04358068; NCT04321278; NCT04453501 Saghazadeh and Rezaei/Falsenstein et al. [142, 153]
Multipotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) Immune cell-based therapy: results showed a reduction of pulmonary edema and decreased circulating proinflammatory cytokines and mortality rates ChiCTR2000029990 Zhang et al./ Leng et al. [111, 154]
Vitamin D, zinc, Traditional Chinese Medicine Biomolecule effect on immune response: contributing to the reduction of hyper inflammation NCT04407572; NCT04435119; NCT04306497 Zhang et al./Zhang et al./Meltzer et al. [111, 157, 158]