Impact of Interleukin-6 Receptor Blockade With Tocilizumab on Cardiac Injury in Patients With COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Affiliations

• ¹ Heart and Vascular Center, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ² Center for Clinical Investigation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Pharmacy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Rheumatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁶ Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.