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Chew D, Shiau S, Sudharshan S, Alankar A, Desilva M, Kodali S, Raquepo TM, Meilad N, Sudyn A, Swaminathan S. Outcomes Among Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 Treated with Remdesivir in an Urban Center Pre-COVID-19 Vaccination. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities 2023:10.1007/s40615-023-01861-6. [PMID: 38012432 DOI: 10.1007/s40615-023-01861-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2023] [Revised: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 11/02/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Data on treatment outcomes among minority populations treated with remdesivir are limited. We sought to evaluate outcomes among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and treated with remdesivir among a predominantly Black and LatinX population. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and treated with remdesivir at an urban hospital in Newark, NJ, between May 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021, prior to widespread COVID-19 vaccination uptake. We describe 28-day mortality by demographic, socio-economic, and clinical factors, including clinical status by World Health Organization's (WHO) 8-point Ordinal Scale for Clinical Improvement. RESULTS A total of 206 patients met study inclusion criteria (52% were male, 41% non-Hispanic Black and 42% Hispanic). Overall mortality at 28 days was 11%. Eighty-one percent of patients with baseline WHO status of 4 or greater recovered by day 14. Mortality was higher among those who were older (p = 0.01), those with underlying diabetes mellitus (p = 0.047), those with more severe illness on admission by WHO Ordinal Scale (WHO status ≥ 4), and those on concomitant tociluzimab or convalescent plasma use. CONCLUSIONS We found that remdesivir was effective in treating most COVID-19 patients in our study. Traditional risk factors, such as advanced age and underlying co-morbidities, were associated with worse clinical outcomes and deaths.
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Affiliation(s)
- Debra Chew
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB I-689, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB I-689, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB I-689, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB I-689, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB I-689, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB I-689, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB I-689, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Avenue, MSB I-689, Newark, NJ, 07101, USA
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Lowndes DH, Desilva M, Godbole MJ, Pedraza AJ, Geohegan DB. Ablation, Melting, and Smoothing of Polycrystalline Alumina by Pulsed Excimer Laser Radiation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1557/proc-285-191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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ABSTRACTThe effects of pulsed XeCl (308 nm) laser radiation on polycrystalline Al2O3 (alumina, 99.6% pure) and single-crystal Al2O3 (sapphire) are studied as a function of laser fluence. No laser etching ofeither material is detected below a threshold fluence value, which is much lower for alumina than for sapphire. Above this threshold, laser etching of both materials is observed following a number of incubation (induction) pulses. This number is much larger for sapphire than for alumina but decreases with increasing fluence for both materials. Laser etching rates for the two materials are similar at high fluences and after the incubation period. Scanning electron microscope images show that alumina melts and flows under repeated irradiation at fluences ≥0.7 J/cm2. Atomic force microscopy and surface profilometry reveal significant smoothing of the as-received polycrystalline alumina surface after repeated irradiations at moderate fluences (∼1−3 J/cm2). Ion probe measurements for alumina in vacuum confirm the incubation behavior, and reveal that at fixed fluence the (positive) charge collected per pulse saturates after a sufficient number of pulses, as does the etch-plume velocity. The results are interpreted in terms of laser-generation of a sufficient concentration of absorption centers before efficient ablation/etching of these wide bandgap materials can occur.
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