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Clinical Trial Summary

Remdesivir is a monophosphoramidate prodrug of an adenosine analogue and it has a broad-spectrum antiviral activity against paramyxoviruses, falviviruses and coronaviruses. It showed in vitro activity on human airway epithelial cells against SARS-CoV-2. It is an investigational drug and granted an Emergency Use Authorization by Food and Drug Administration FDA, so it is under clinical trial.

The potent mechanism of action of this drug is still unclear but it effects through several processes. It can interfere with nsp12 polymerase even when exoribonuclease proofreading is intact. It can also produce nucleoside triphosphate NTP that acts pharmacologically active alternate substrate of RNA-chain terminator, as a result NTP can constrain active triphosphates into viral RNA of coronaviruses. There is evidence of high genetic barrier to develop resistance against Remdesivir in coronavirus as a result of which is maintains its effectiveness in antiviral therapies against these viruses. Effectiveness of Remdesivir has been reported against different groups of coronaviruses including Alphacoronavirus NL63 and several SARS/MERS-CoV coronaviruses.


Clinical Trial Description

This is interventional single-center study, that will be done at Lahore General Hospital in which 95 beds are allocated for COVID-19 patients including ICUs and HDUs. Ethical approval will be obtained from research ethical committee of Lahore General hospital, Lahore. Informed consent will be obtained from all patients who will agree to publish their data in this research. Patient's privacy protection will be obeyed with the Helsinki Declaration.

The aim of this study is to evaluate clinical effectiveness of this investigational drug, started a clinical trial of this drug on laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients at a tertiary care hospital of Lahore, Pakistan. ;


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NCT number NCT04560231
Study type Interventional
Source Lahore General Hospital
Contact Muhammad Irfan Malik, FCPS
Phone 03334367220
Email drmirfanmalik@hotmail.com
Status Recruiting
Phase Early Phase 1
Start date June 1, 2020
Completion date November 30, 2020

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