• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Heart transplant recipient patient with COVID‐19 treated with tocilizumab
  • Contributor: Mattioli, Massimo; Fustini, Elisa; Gennarini, Silvia
  • imprint: Wiley, 2020
  • Published in: Transplant Infectious Disease
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1111/tid.13380
  • ISSN: 1398-2273; 1399-3062
  • Keywords: Infectious Diseases ; Transplantation
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>A heart transplant 62‐year‐old patient referred for coronavirus‐19 disease (COVID‐19) pneumonia. At admission, he was febrile, tachypnoeic, and mild hypoxic with dry cough; during hospitalization, a diffuse morbilliform skin rash appeared. He was treated with tocilizumab with symptoms improvement, without a complete pulmonary function recovery. Skin rash, highly suggestive for COVID‐19 cutaneous involvement, persisted for ten days despite tocilizumab administration.</jats:p>