[HTML][HTML] Significantly decreased mortality in a large cohort of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients transfused early with convalescent plasma containing …

E Salazar, PA Christensen, EA Graviss… - The American journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
E Salazar, PA Christensen, EA Graviss, DT Nguyen, B Castillo, J Chen, BV Lopez, TN Eagar
The American journal of pathology, 2021Elsevier
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) convalescent plasma has emerged as a promising
therapy and has been granted Emergency Use Authorization by the US Food and Drug
Administration for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. We recently reported results from interim
analysis of a propensity score–matched study suggesting that early treatment of COVID-19
patients with convalescent plasma containing high-titer anti-spike protein receptor binding
domain (RBD) IgG significantly decreases mortality. We herein present results from a 60-day …
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) convalescent plasma has emerged as a promising therapy and has been granted Emergency Use Authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. We recently reported results from interim analysis of a propensity score–matched study suggesting that early treatment of COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma containing high-titer anti-spike protein receptor binding domain (RBD) IgG significantly decreases mortality. We herein present results from a 60-day follow-up of a cohort of 351 transfused hospitalized patients. Prospective determination of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay anti-RBD IgG titer facilitated selection and transfusion of the highest titer units available. Retrospective analysis by the Ortho VITROS IgG assay revealed a median signal/cutoff ratio of 24.0 for transfused units, a value far exceeding the recent US Food and Drug Administration–required cutoff of 12.0 for designation of high-titer convalescent plasma. With respect to altering mortality, our analysis identified an optimal window of 44 hours after hospitalization for transfusing COVID-19 patients with high-titer convalescent plasma. In the aggregate, the analysis confirms and extends our previous preliminary finding that transfusion of COVID-19 patients soon after hospitalization with high-titer anti-spike protein RBD IgG present in convalescent plasma significantly reduces mortality.
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