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. 2024 Aug 1;109(8):2693-2700.
doi: 10.3324/haematol.2023.284678.

Dexamethasone treatment for COVID-19 is related to increased mortality in hematologic malignancy patients: results from the EPICOVIDEHA registry

Tommaso Francesco Aiello  1 , Jon Salmanton-Garcia  2 , Francesco Marchesi  3 , Barbora Weinbergerova  4 , Andreas Glenthoj  5 , Jens Van Praet  6 , Francesca Farina  7 , Julio Davila-Valls  8 , Sonia Martin-Perez  8 , Shaimaa El-Ashwah  9 , Martin Schonlein  10 , Iker Falces-Romero  11 , Jorge Labrador  12 , Uluhan Sili  13 , Caterina Buquicchio  14 , Antonio Vena  15 , Gaetan Plantefeve  16 , Verena Petzer  17 , Monika M Biernat  18 , Tobias Lahmer  19 , Ildefonso Espigado  20 , Jaap Van Doesum  21 , Ola Blennow  22 , Klara Piukovics  23 , Carlo Tascini  24 , Michail Samarkos  25 , Yavuz M Bilgin  26 , Luana Fianchi  27 , Federico Itri  28 , Toni Valković  29 , Nicola S Fracchiolla  30 , Michelina Dargenio  31 , Moraima Jimenez  32 , Ferenc Magyari  33 , Alberto Lopez-Garcia  34 , Lucia Prezioso  35 , Natasha Čolović  36 , Evgenii Shumilov  37 , Ghaith Abu-Zeinah  38 , Carolin Krekeler  39 , Esperanza Lavilla-Rubira  40 , Mario Virgilio Papa  41 , Tomas Jose Gonzalez-Lopez  42 , Laszlo Imre Pinczes  43 , Fatih Demirkan  44 , Natasha Ali  45 , Caroline Besson  46 , Guillemette Fouquet  47 , Alessandra Romano  48 , Jose-Angel Hernandez-Rivas  49 , Maria Ilaria Del Principe  50 , Avinash Aujayeb  51 , Maria Merelli  24 , Sylvain Lamure  52 , Joyce Marques De Almeida  53 , Maria Gomes Da Silva  54 , Noha Eisa  55 , Joseph Meletiadis  56 , Ikhwan Rinaldi  57 , Olimpia Finizio  58 , Ozren Jaksic  59 , Mario Delia  60 , Summiya Nizamuddin  61 , Monia Marchetti  62 , Marriyam Ijaz  61 , Marina Machado  63 , Rebeca Bailen-Almorox  64 , Martin Čerňan  65 , Nicola Coppola  66 , Eleni Gavriilaki  67 , Chiara Cattaneo  68 , Ana Groh  69 , Zlate Stojanoski  70 , Nurettin Erben  71 , Nicola Pantic  36 , Gustavo-Adolfo Mendez  72 , Roberta Di Blasi  73 , Stef Meers  74 , Cristina De Ramon  75 , Nathan C Bahr  76 , Ziad Emarah  9 , Gina Varricchio  41 , Milche Cvetanoski  70 , Ramon Garcia-Sanz  77 , Mirjana Mitrovic  36 , Raphael Lievin  78 , Michaela Hanakova  79 , Zdeněk Račil  79 , Maria Vehreschild  69 , Athanasios Tragiannidis  80 , Raquel Nunes Rodrigues  54 , Daniel Garcia-Bordallo  40 , Raul Cordoba  34 , Alba Cabirta  81 , Anna Nordlander  22 , Emanuele Ammatuna  21 , Elena Arellano  20 , Dominik Wolf  17 , Romane Prin  16 , Alessandro Limongelli  15 , Martina Bavastro  15 , Gokce Melis Colak  13 , Stefanie Grafe  82 , Ditte Stampe Hersby  5 , Laman Rahimli  82 , Oliver A Cornely  82 , Carolina Garcia-Vidal  83 , Livio Pagano  27 , Epicovideha Study Group  84
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Dexamethasone treatment for COVID-19 is related to increased mortality in hematologic malignancy patients: results from the EPICOVIDEHA registry

Tommaso Francesco Aiello et al. Haematologica. .
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Figure 1.
Survival curves for the three groups of patients with different treatment strategies. (A) ALL patients. (B) Non-hospitaLized (home) patients and hospitaLized patients (non-intensive care unit [non-ICU] admitted patients and ICU-admitted patients. (C) SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant-infected patients.
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