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. 2022 Jul 25:dkac253. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkac253

Table 1.

Comparison of patients treated or not treated with targeted curative COVID-19 treatment

Characteristic Targeted curative treatment
(n = 42; 81%)
No treatment
(n = 10; 19%)
P value
Age, years, median (IQR) 52 (45–63) 55 (36–60) 0.71
Male sex, n (%) 23 (55) 7 (70) 0.49
Cause of immunosuppression, n (%)
 Solid organ transplantation 29 (69) 6 (60) 0.71
 Calcineurin inhibitor 23 (55) 6 (60) 1
 Mycophenolate mofetil 21 (50) 5 (50) 1
 Everolimus 11 (26) 1 (10) 0.42
 Steroids 36 (86) 7 (70) 0.35
 Belatacept 4 (10) 0 (0) 0.58
 Rituximab 6 (14) 3 (30) 0.35
 Other immunosuppressive agent 2 (5) 0 (0) 1
 Cyclophosphamide 5 (12) 0 (0) 0.57
 Active cancer with chemotherapy 3 (7) 0 (0) 1
Comorbidities
 Diabetes mellitus, n (%) 19 (45) 3 (30) 0.49
 Chronic heart failure, n (%) 4 (10) 0 (0) 0.58
 Chronic respiratory failure, n (%) 1 (2) 0 (0) 1
 Obesity, n (%) 8 (19) 3 (30) 0.42
 eGFR, mL/min/1.73 m2, median (IQR) 55 (32–67) 55 (24–93) 0.69
 End-stage renal disease with dialysis, n (%) 3 (7) 1 (10) 1
COVID-19 prophylaxis, n (%)
 History of COVID-19 1 (2) 0 (0) 1
 At least 3 doses of vaccine 35 (83) 7 (70) 0.38
 Anti-S >264 BAU/mL 1 (3) 2 (22) 0.086
 Casirivimab/imdevimab PREP 14 (33) 4 (40) 0.72
 Tixagevimab/cilgavimab PREP 0 (0) 0 (0)
COVID-19 disease
 Asymptomatic, n (%) 2 (5) 2 (20) 0.16
 Fever, n (%) 26 (62) 5 (50) 0.5
 Cough, n (%) 28 (67) 6 (60) 0.72
 Dyspnoea, n (%) 15 (36) 3 (30) 1
 Oxygen requirement, n (%) 5 (12) 3 (30) 0.17
 Hospitalization, n (%) 12 (29) 3 (30) 1
 Intensive care, n (%) 2 (5) 2 (20) 0.17
 Death from COVID-19, n (%) 0 (0) 2 (20) 0.034
 Follow-up duration, days, median (IQR) 63 (55–85) 59 (46–90) 0.62

Patients who received tocilizumab and other non-SARS-CoV-2-targeted treatments only are listed in the no-treatment column. Patients receiving PREP at least 5 days before symptom onset were excluded from this analysis.