Effectiveness of Colchicine Among Patients With COVID-19 Infection

Coronavirus Infection Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effectiveness of Colchicine Among Patients With COVID-19 Infection

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04867226
• Other study ID #: Effectiveness of colchicine
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: May 8, 2021
• Est. completion date: June 18, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: June 2021
• Source: Hawler Medical University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

In November 2019, there were a lot of cases of an acute respiratory illness (then named at February 11th as COVID_19) which first case was reported in Wuhan, China,The SARS COV-2 had been spread in a fast way to involve whole world, As it's obvious that Colchicine is a drug that is most commonly and widely used to treat and prevent acute attacks of Gout, other crystal induced arthropathy,colchicine has important role in inhibiting activation of NLRP3 inflammasome these lead to decrease cytokine production , aim of study To evaluate whether colchicine is effective in the treatment of COVID-19 cases. And to measure the effectiveness of colchicine in alleviating and controlling pulmonary and extra pulmonary complications of COVID-19

Description:

this is an open label, randomize control clinical trial ,the participant will be randomly assign in to two groups ( Group A and Group B), colchicine (group A) will treat with colchicine tablet alone or add to their Current treatment,Colchicine 0.5 mg twice daily (reduce to 0.5 mg/day, in patients with low body weight or develop side effects like gastrointestinal symptoms ),For 14 days or until symptoms subsides, while the control group will treat according to usual treatment guideline in COVID-19.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: June 18, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: June 18, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1.patients diagnosed clinically or by RT-PCR in nasopharyngeal swab specimens and/ or lung involvement confirm by computed tomography scan compatible with COVID-19patients 2.Age between 18 year and 70 years, 3.body weight > 50 kg, 4.with written informed consent from patients or relatives.

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Exclusion Criteria 1 sensitivity to any medications of regimens, 2.e GFR less than 30. 3.pregnancy. 4.malignancy . 5.Participating in another clinical study and refusing to participate in the study at a later date or later, and they are already taking colchicine for other diseases .

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Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Communicable Diseases
• Coronavirus Infection
• Coronavirus Infections
• Infection

Intervention

Drug:
• Colchicine 0.5 MG
participant will be given a Colchicine regimen in a dose of 0.5mg twice daily for 14 days or until symptoms subsides,those with low body weight and develop side effect like diarrhea and vomiting dose will be reduced and supportive treatment will be given .
• usual care treatment
control group will receive usual care COVID-19 treatment according to Iraqi protocol guideline and will not receive colchicine.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Iraq	Hawler medical university ,Rozhawa emergency hospital	Erbil

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hawler Medical University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Iraq, 

References & Publications (10)

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	need for supplemental oxygen	number of patients need supplemental oxygen	14 days following randomization
Primary	length of hospital stay	number of patients who admit to hospital and duration of stay	14 days following randomization
Primary	need for invasive mechanical ventilation	number of patients need invasive mechanical ventilation	14 days following randomization
Primary	death rate	number of patients who die during randomization	14 days following randomization
Secondary	oxygen saturation measurement	Sp02 measurement by pulse oximetry	14 days following randomization
Secondary	musculoskeletal symptoms	participants who have back pain and myalgia measure by patient analogue scale of pain	14 days following randomization
Secondary	change in severity marker	CRP measurement	14 days following randomization
Secondary	change in inflammatory marker	ferritin	14 days following randomization
Secondary	change in severity marker	D.Dimer	14 days following randomization
Secondary	change in marker	leukocyte	14 days following randomization
Secondary	adverse effect	number of participants who develop adverse effect with treatment	14 days following randomization