RETRACTED: Glucocorticoids Should Be Used With Caution in Patients With SARS-CoV-2

Yong Guo; Yan Chen; Yingchuan Li; Yingchuan Li

doi:10.3389/fmed.2021.564943

Frontiers in Medicine (Feb 2021)

RETRACTED: Glucocorticoids Should Be Used With Caution in Patients With SARS-CoV-2

Yong Guo,
Yan Chen,
Yingchuan Li,
Yingchuan Li

Affiliations

Yong Guo: Department of Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China
Yan Chen: Department of Clinical Pharmocology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China
Yingchuan Li: Department of Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China
Yingchuan Li: Department of Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.564943
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8

Abstract

Read online

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a global pandemic, and the use of glucocorticoids in clinical practice is controversial. Our clinical experiences with glucocorticoid treatment suggested that, while use was effective in some cases, in other cases, glucocorticoid were ineffective and even resulted in immunosuppression that could lead to deterioration. Therefore, glucocorticoids should be used with caution in patients with SARS-CoV-2.

Published in Frontiers in Medicine

ISSN: 2296-858X (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: http://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine

About the journal

Abstract

Keywords