Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for Coronavirus Disease-2019 Triggered Cytokine Release Storm;

NCT04485169 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: Sultan Mehmood Kamran
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 280
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Background: investigators have seen recently from experience in Western countries with best health care systems that pandemics cannot be managed in hospitals. Investigators have seen ICUs crowded to capacity, healthcare workers being exposed and going to quarantine or dying after exposure to large doses of viral inoculums. Investigators recommend that institutions should register for Clinical trials and consider emergency use of TPE. In Pandemics, time is of essence to avoid mortality by intervening early with available evidence, preferably as part of clinical trial. Scientific rationale: Beyond supportive care, there are currently no proven treatment options for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and related pneumonia, caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, literature review has shown that most common cause of death in severe SARS-COV-2 is Cytokine release syndrome and Hemophygocytic Lymphohistocytosis (HLH). In this context, Investigators seek to treat patients who are sick enough to warrant hospitalization prior to the onset of overwhelming disease including a systemic inflammatory response, sepsis, and/or Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).

Conditions

COVID-19; Cytokine Release Syndrome

Keywords

Therapeutic Plasma exchange; Cytokine release storm; COVID-19; ARDS; Critical disease

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Survival

  Death or recovery

  28 days

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Duration of Hospitalization

  28 days

• Timing of PCR negativity

  28 days

• Time to CRS resolution

  28 days

• Complications

  28 days

Study Arms (2)

TPE Arm

EXPERIMENTAL

In addition to standard care TPE was performed once daily using COBE Spectra Apheresis machine version 7 (Manufacturer TERUMO BCT, Lakewood, CO, USA INC) having continuous flow centrifugation. Venous access was achieved using an ultrasound guided double lumen catheter (Arrow - 12 FR) via femoral vein. Patient's total blood volume was calculated as per Nadler's formula. Anticoagulant acid dextrose ratio was 1:10 and flow rate 30-40 ml/minutes (Adjusted as per hemodynamic status). Patients' blood pressure, pulse, oxygen saturation was monitored throughout procedure. Duration of procedure varied from 2-4 hours and 1-1.5 times total plasma volume was removed during each procedure. Replacement fluid was fresh frozen plasma (FFP) and normal saline in 2:1 respectively. All procedures were performed in intensive care or high dependency unit by Apheresis Department of PEMH. TPE was continued till recovery

Procedure: Therapeutic Plasma Exchange

NON TPE arm

NO INTERVENTION

Only supportive treatment offered including Vit C, Zinc, Vit D, famotidine, Enoxaparin and Methylprednisolone

Interventions

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange PROCEDURE

a. 1-1.5 plasma volume exchange, 2/3rd plasma should be replacing with FFP to avoid coagulopathy, adequate dieresis to prevent volume overload, 1-5 sessions in total, 1 session daily

TPE Arm

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 80 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• COVID-19 diagnosed by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) positivity for SARS-CoV2
• CRS at presentation or developing during hospitalization
• years age and both genders
• hospital admission
• At least 1 completed session of plasma-exchange in patients included in TPE arm
• No other novel therapy administered.

You may not qualify if:

• Death within 48 hours of admission
• severe septic shock at time of admission
• Congestive cardiac failure (EF\<20%) (4)
• Those receiving immunotherapy, Anti-thymocyte globulin or hematopoietic stem cell transplant in recent past
• Patients of hematological or solid organ malignancies
• patients receiving other investigational drugs including Tocilizumab, Convalescent plasma, Remdesivir, or Mesenchymal stem cells.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• UNICEF: lead
• Pak Emirates Military Hospital Rawalpindi: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Pak Emirates Military Hospital

Rawalpindi, Punjab Province, 46000, Pakistan

Location

Related Publications (9)

• 6. Clinical Management Guidelines for COVID-19 Infections, Version 2 [Internet]. Nhsrc.gov.pk. 2020 [cited 1 July 2020]. Available from: http://www.nhsrc.gov.pk/SiteImage/Misc/files/Clinical-Management-nfection%20v2.pdf

  BACKGROUND

• Padmanabhan A, Connelly-Smith L, Aqui N, Balogun RA, Klingel R, Meyer E, Pham HP, Schneiderman J, Witt V, Wu Y, Zantek ND, Dunbar NM, Schwartz GEJ. Guidelines on the Use of Therapeutic Apheresis in Clinical Practice - Evidence-Based Approach from the Writing Committee of the American Society for Apheresis: The Eighth Special Issue. J Clin Apher. 2019 Jun;34(3):171-354. doi: 10.1002/jca.21705.

  PMID: 31180581 BACKGROUND

• Patel P, Nandwani V, Vanchiere J, Conrad SA, Scott LK. Use of therapeutic plasma exchange as a rescue therapy in 2009 pH1N1 influenza A--an associated respiratory failure and hemodynamic shock. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2011 Mar;12(2):e87-9. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181e2a569.

  PMID: 20453703 BACKGROUND

• Busund R, Koukline V, Utrobin U, Nedashkovsky E. Plasmapheresis in severe sepsis and septic shock: a prospective, randomised, controlled trial. Intensive Care Med. 2002 Oct;28(10):1434-9. doi: 10.1007/s00134-002-1410-7. Epub 2002 Jul 23.

  PMID: 12373468 BACKGROUND

• Keith P, Day M, Perkins L, Moyer L, Hewitt K, Wells A. A novel treatment approach to the novel coronavirus: an argument for the use of therapeutic plasma exchange for fulminant COVID-19. Crit Care. 2020 Apr 2;24(1):128. doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-2836-4. No abstract available.

  PMID: 32241301 BACKGROUND

• Shi H, Zhou C, He P, Huang S, Duan Y, Wang X, Lin K, Zhou C, Zhang X, Zha Y. Successful treatment with plasma exchange followed by intravenous immunoglobulin in a critically ill patient with COVID-19. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2020 Aug;56(2):105974. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.105974. Epub 2020 Apr 13.

  PMID: 32298745 BACKGROUND

• Zhang L, Zhai H, Ma S, Chen J, Gao Y. Efficacy of therapeutic plasma exchange in severe COVID-19 patients. Br J Haematol. 2020 Aug;190(4):e181-e183. doi: 10.1111/bjh.16890. Epub 2020 Jun 12. No abstract available.

  PMID: 32453903 BACKGROUND

• Ma J, Xia P, Zhou Y, Liu Z, Zhou X, Wang J, Li T, Yan X, Chen L, Zhang S, Qin Y, Li X. Potential effect of blood purification therapy in reducing cytokine storm as a late complication of critically ill COVID-19. Clin Immunol. 2020 May;214:108408. doi: 10.1016/j.clim.2020.108408. Epub 2020 Apr 1. No abstract available.

  PMID: 32247038 BACKGROUND

• Knaup H, Stahl K, Schmidt BMW, Idowu TO, Busch M, Wiesner O, Welte T, Haller H, Kielstein JT, Hoeper MM, David S. Early therapeutic plasma exchange in septic shock: a prospective open-label nonrandomized pilot study focusing on safety, hemodynamics, vascular barrier function, and biologic markers. Crit Care. 2018 Oct 30;22(1):285. doi: 10.1186/s13054-018-2220-9.

  PMID: 30373638 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

COVID-19; Cytokine Release Syndrome

Interventions

Plasma Exchange

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Respiratory Tract Infections; Infections; Virus Diseases; Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome; Inflammation; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Shock

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Blood Transfusion; Biological Therapy; Therapeutics; Plasmapheresis; Blood Component Removal; Sorption Detoxification; Extracorporeal Circulation; Surgical Procedures, Operative

Study Officials

• Imran m Fazal, FCPS

  Pak Emirates Military Hospital (PEMH) Rawalpindi

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Classified Medical specialist

Model Details: It was an interventional retrospective Propensity score matched (PSM) single centre based cohort study in Pak Emirates Military Hospital Rawalpindi (PEMH), Pakistan from 1st April to 30th June 2020. This study was carried out at the Department of Pulmonology and Critical care. PEMH is the largest Covid-19 designated hospital in the country. Data of all hospitalized patients is maintained by PEMH Covid-19 Research and evaluation cell. The study was approved by Institutional Review Board.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 21, 2020
• First Posted: July 24, 2020
• Study Start: April 1, 2020
• Primary Completion: July 31, 2020
• Study Completion: July 31, 2020
• Last Updated: September 28, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF
• Time Frame: Data is available right now and will remain available (6 months)
• Access Criteria: By email

Locations

PA (1)