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ecj-9888	Vergnano, Beatrice; Calcinati, Serena; Signori, Davide; Benini, Annalisa; Pozzi, Maria Rosa; Verga, Luisa; Pizzagalli, Jonata; Bonfanti, Paolo; Bellani, Giacomo; Foti, Giuseppe	Steroids in severe COVID-19 patients: A retrospective analysis on the first pandemics in Lombardy	2021	8	.pdf	application/pdf	5350	290	47	Since different severity of illness and different steroid dosage and timing of administration where reported,10-14 better profiling and targeting of COVID-19 patients is desired; thus, several RCTs are ongoing.15-17 During the first pandemic wave, in our third level hospital in Lombardy, on the basis of a multidisciplinary collaboration between intensivists, hematologists, rheumatologists and infectivologists we started to immunomodulate some patients with severe respiratory failure, still not requiring MV. Correspondence: Davide Signori, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, San Gerardo Hospital, Via G. B. Pergolesi 33, 20900 Monza, Italy. Our results suggest a better profiling of COVID-19 patients for optimal rationales, timings, dosages of steroids since efficacy seems to differ broadly considering age, timing, disease severity and comorbidity.	cache/ecj-9888.pdf	txt/ecj-9888.txt