The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 2 Comparison of cytokine storm markers on admission and on the 10th day of treatment

From: Comparison between methylprednisolone infusion and dexamethasone in COVID-19 ARDS mechanically ventilated patients

	Methylpred 2 mg/kg/day		Dexa. 6 mg		T-test
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	t	p value
Ferritin admission	707.51	328.81	741.18	346.99	− 1.01	0.312
Ferritin + 10 days	292.96	330.10	648.10	329.09	− 10.93	< 0.001
D-Dimer admission	2657.05	1091.49	2997.62	982.75	− 3.34	0.001
D-Dimer + 10 days	1301.75	1515.51	2523.78	843.18	− 9.92	< 0.001
CRP admission	114.80	39.96	115.91	42.08	− 0.27	0.784
CRP + 10 days	49.65	19.91	100.54	36.75	− 17.14	< 0.001
LDH admission	782.55	282.57	857.69	230.84	− 2.98	0.003
LDH + 10 days	345.09	128.31	731.87	195.09	− 23.43	< 0.001
N:L ratio admission	30.36	8.20	30.85	8.28	− 0.60	0.551
N: L ratio + 10 days	17.27	5.09	26.88	7.19	− 15.47	< 0.001

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