Nature Communications (May 2022)

Prospective individual patient data meta-analysis of two randomized trials on convalescent plasma for COVID-19 outpatients

  • Pere Millat-Martinez,
  • Arvind Gharbharan,
  • Andrea Alemany,
  • Casper Rokx,
  • Corine Geurtsvankessel,
  • Grigorios Papageourgiou,
  • Nan van Geloven,
  • Carlijn Jordans,
  • Geert Groeneveld,
  • Francis Swaneveld,
  • Ellen van der Schoot,
  • Marc Corbacho-Monné,
  • Dan Ouchi,
  • Francini Piccolo Ferreira,
  • Pierre Malchair,
  • Sebastian Videla,
  • Vanesa García García,
  • Anna Ruiz-Comellas,
  • Anna Ramírez-Morros,
  • Joana Rodriguez Codina,
  • Rosa Amado Simon,
  • Joan-Ramon Grifols,
  • Julian Blanco,
  • Ignacio Blanco,
  • Jordi Ara,
  • Quique Bassat,
  • Bonaventura Clotet,
  • Bàrbara Baro,
  • Andrea Troxel,
  • Jaap Jan Zwaginga,
  • Oriol Mitjà,
  • Bart J. A. Rijnders,
  • CoV-Early study group,
  • COnV-ert study group

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29911-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Clinical studies have suggested that the therapeutic potential of polyclonal convalescent plasma is highest in the first days of symptoms. Here, the authors present results from a pooled analysis of two clinical trials in COVID-19 outpatients that did not provide conclusive evidence in favor of convalescent plasma.