Efficacy and Tolerability of Hydroxychloroquine in Adult Patients With COVID-19

Coronavirus Infection Clinical Trial

Official title: A Multi-center, Randomized, Open-label, Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Tolerability of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in Adult Patients With Mild to Moderate Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Compared to Standard of Care Treatment

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The effective medical treatment against COVID-19 infection is still unknown. Chloroquine phosphate is a well-known antimalarial drug which has been on the market for many years. Recently, in vitro study shown that Chloroquine is effective at both entry and at post-entry stages of the COVID-19 infection of Vero E6 cells with promising results. Chloroquine is also an immune-modifier and could distribute to the whole body including lung. Also, chloroquine is cheap and safe, and could be a promising agent against COVID-19 infection. However, only hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) with the extra hydroxyl group is available in Taiwan. Therefore, hydroxychloroquine instead become the best choice for the treatment candidate, since it shows higher in vitro potency (EC50) against COVID-19 with lower toxicity while retaining the original effect which compared with chloroquine.

Clinical Trial Description

On December 31, 2019, an outbreak of respiratory illness later proved to be caused by a novel coronavirus, officially named Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), was notified first in Wuhan, a city of Hubei province, People's Republic of China (PRC). COVID-19 rapidly spreads in China and to other parts of the world. Currently more than 370,000 laboratory-confirmed cases have been reported worldwide, and the case count has been rising daily, and caused a global health emergency. As of March 29, 2020, there were 298 confirmed cases in Taiwan.

This is a multi-center, randomized, open-label, controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate (HCQ) in adult Patients with mild to moderate coronavirus disease (COVID-19) compared to standard of care treatment (SOC). The primary endpoint for the study is to evaluate the efficacy of HCQ, with respect to the time to negatively rRT-PCR assessments from the randomization date up to 14 days. The secondary endpoint is to evaluate the efficacy of HCQ in the aspect of virological assessments and the change of clinical symptoms. In addition, the safety and tolerability of HCQ will be evaluated during treatment period in COVID-19 patients. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Coronavirus Infection
• Coronavirus Infections
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

• NCT number: NCT04384380
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Taoyuan General Hospital
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2020
• Completion date: May 31, 2020