Clinical outcomes of current medical approaches for Middle East respiratory syndrome: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Morra M, Van Thanh L, Kamel M, Ghazy A, Altibi A, Dat L, Thy T, Vuong N, Mostafa M, Ahmed S, Elabd S, Fathima S, Le Huy Vu T, Omrani A, Memish Z, Hirayama K, Huy N. Clinical outcomes of current medical approaches for Middle East respiratory syndrome: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Reviews In Medical Virology 2018, 28: e1977. PMID: 29664167, PMCID: PMC7169085, DOI: 10.1002/rmv.1977.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChronic renal diseaseMiddle East respiratory syndromeRenal diseaseSupportive treatmentEfficacy of antiviral drugsAssociated with worse outcomesAntiviral drugsIFN-treated groupLarge-scale prospective randomized studiesProspective randomized studyMonitoring of adverse eventsRisk of mortalitySystematic literature searchOlder age groupsMiddle east respiratory syndrome patientsIFN groupCase fatality rateRandomized studyClinical outcomesAdverse eventsPreexisting comorbiditiesIFN treatmentWorse outcomesSystematic reviewTherapeutic efficacy