In Situ Thrombolysis With tPA and Inflow Perfusion Analysis in Patient With Severe Covid-19 Infection

COVID-19 Clinical Trial

Official title:

In Situ Thrombolysis With tPA and Inflow Lung Perfusion Analysis in Patient With Severe Covid-19 Infection

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04926428
• Other study ID #: DI-222-2020
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 25, 2020
• Est. completion date: March 30, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: June 2021
• Source: Grupo Mexicano para el Estudio de la Medicina Intensiva
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To estimate the pulmonary response microvascular thrombosis in critical patients due to SARS-Cov-2., at the Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", a 15 patients compassionate treatment study was authorized and approved by the ethics and research committee DI-222-2020. Because of the severity of the illness the legal representative sign informed consent in all the patients for performing in-situ thrombolysis with alteplase selectively by catheter in each main pulmonary artery, under fluoroscopic guidance and acquiring images with the iFlow software to assess immediate and post-procedure response.

Description:

The main clinical characteristic of patients with severe SARS-Cov-2 infection is hypoxemic respiratory failure that requires Mechanical Ventilation. The Acute Respiratory Syndrome model has been proposed as the cause of this significant deterioration in lung function and all management has focused on ventilatory support management. As for ventilatory failure, it has been attributed to the presence of severe pulmonary inflammation evolving to fibrosis, which is the clinical characteristic of patients with Primary Respiratory Distress Syndrome (which would be the case of this as it is considered a respiratory virus).

Several autopsy studies demonstrated microthrombi in pulmonary circulation. The major limitation of these investigations is that the autopsy provided static information. Some of these alterations could be secondary to the disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) observed as the standard route to the multisystem organ failure exhibited in critically ill patients.

With this comes the contradictory results of high doses of anticoagulants in the survival of these patients. This intermediate to high doses can reduce organ support treatments in moderate cases, however, in critically ill patients the benefit of high dose of anticoagulants, once again failed to produce benefit on survival. Different publication on biopsies made in these patients have report the presence of thrombosis in the microcirculation and finally recently has been published the demonstration by direct examination with Citoscam, the presence of this thrombosis of the microcirculation in vivo in 11 of 13 test (85% of the sample). Studies performed with viscoelastic coagulation tests present evidence of three key alterations in coagulation

1. EXTEM and INTEM Hypercoagulable states represented by a maximum amplitude (A5, A10 and MCF) greater than 70mm, short clot formation time.

2. Hyperfibrinogenemia A5 A10 MCF in FIBTEM greater than 30mm

3. Absence of fibrinolytic activity (ML% Lys 30 and Lys 60) 100% Taking this into account plus the large number of publications regarding the thrombotic phenomenon of the patient with COVID-19, this could be explained by the presence of a phenomenon of ventilation perfusion (V / Q) that is observed in patients with Massive Pulmonary Thromboembolism (PE) which is known as the infinite relationship, that is, the lung is with normal aeration, but no perfusion, there is no adequate gas exchange, with presence of hypoxia, increment of death space and ultimately obstructive shock.

In patients with COVID-19, this phenomenon is observed in patients with absence of massive or submassive PE that explains this phenomenon.

The high mortality of critically ill patients with SARS-Cov-2 infection, the presence of thrombosis of the microcirculation and the lack of efficacy of anticoagulation in some cases suggests that this phenomenon could be the cause of the behavior between perfusion ventilation observed in SARS-Cov-2 patients.

For these reasons, a probe of concept research was developed to find out if pulmonary perfusion alteration by microthrombosis and secondary V / Q abnormalities could be linked to the pathophysiology of the patient with severe SARS-Cov-2 infection.

To estimate the pulmonary response microvascular thrombosis in critical patients due to SARS-Cov-2., at the Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", a 15 patients compassionate treatment study was authorized and approved by the ethics and research committee DI-222-2020. Because of the severity of the illness the legal representative sign informed consent in all the patients for performing in-situ thrombolysis with alteplase selectively by catheter in each main pulmonary artery, under fluoroscopic guidance and acquiring images with the iFlow software to assess immediate and post-procedure response.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 15
• Est. completion date: March 30, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: March 30, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:Lung criteria:

Patients with severe Covid 19 nfection, from 18 to 75 years old, Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (IMV) Pao2 / fio2 less than 150 Non réponse to prone position Coagulation criteria ISTH score >5, D-dimer greater than 1200, Viscoelastic testing EXTEM A5 >65 FIBTEM > 30 and EXTEM ML<8%

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Exclusion Criteria:

Ischemic CVD or presence of abnormal neurological examination. Active bleeding. Acute Myocardial Infarction within the previous three weeks or cardiac arrest during hospitalization.

cardiac tamponade. endocarditis. uncontrolled hypertension SBP> 185mmhg or DBP> 110. history of stage 4 cancer. history of brain tumor. Arterious venous malformation ruptured aneurysm. major surgery in the previous 2 weeks major trauma in the previous 2 weeks. pregnancy. fibrinogen less than 200 blood dyscrasias thrombocytopenia less than 30,000

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Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• COVID-19
• Infection

Intervention

Drug:
• tPA
Selectively catheter thrombolysis with alteplase in each main pulmonary

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Mexico	Hospital General de Mexico Dr Eduardo Liceaga	Mexico City

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Grupo Mexicano para el Estudio de la Medicina Intensiva

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Mexico, 

References & Publications (5)

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Livingston E, Bucher K. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy. JAMA. 2020 Apr 14;323(14):1335. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.4344. — View Citation

Ospina-Tascón GA, Bautista DF, Madriñán HJ, Valencia JD, Bermúdez WF, Quiñones E, Calderón-Tapia LE, Hernandez G, Bruhn A, De Backer D. Microcirculatory dysfunction and dead-space ventilation in early ARDS: a hypothesis-generating observational study. Ann Intensive Care. 2020 Mar 24;10(1):35. doi: 10.1186/s13613-020-00651-1. — View Citation

Vesconi S, Rossi GP, Pesenti A, Fumagalli R, Gattinoni L. Pulmonary microthrombosis in severe adult respiratory distress syndrome. Crit Care Med. 1988 Feb;16(2):111-3. — View Citation

Yao XH, Li TY, He ZC, Ping YF, Liu HW, Yu SC, Mou HM, Wang LH, Zhang HR, Fu WJ, Luo T, Liu F, Guo QN, Chen C, Xiao HL, Guo HT, Lin S, Xiang DF, Shi Y, Pan GQ, Li QR, Huang X, Cui Y, Liu XZ, Tang W, Pan PF, Huang XQ, Ding YQ, Bian XW. [A pathological report of three COVID-19 cases by minimal invasive autopsies]. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi. 2020 May 8;49(5):411-417. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112151-20200312-00193. Chinese. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Changes in lung perfusion	changes in contrast distribution comparing pre and post-thrombolysis using Iflow parameters that include ROI, peak flow and Time	1 hour
Secondary	Coagulation	changes in D Dimer, standard coagulation test and fibrinogen	48 hours
Secondary	Oxygenation Index	changes in PaO2/FiO2 index pre and post-thrombolysis	48 hours