Analysis of the Coagulopathy Developed by COVID-19 Infected Patients

NCT ID: NCT04356950

Last Updated: 2025-12-04

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

175 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-04-28

Study Completion Date

2022-02-14

Brief Summary

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Increased D-dimers at admission of COVID-19 infected patients entering hospital due to a severe disease is a risk factor for death. Understanding this acquired coagulopathy is a prerequisite before specific interventional studies. The study investigators aim to apply a normalized and automated thrombin generation test (TGT), developed for testing the thrombotic risk (triggered by 5 pM Tissue Factor, with a purified thrombomodulin (TM) challenge) and to study its association with survival.

Detailed Description

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Accumulating data describe, in COVID-19 severely infected patients necessitating hospitalized medical support, the development of an acquired coagulopathy, from a sepsis-induced coagulopathy to an overt-DIC, which is a strong risk factor for death. Understanding this coagulopathy is a prerequisite before specific interventional studies. Conventional coagulation tests, like prothrombin time PT and aPTT, only reflect 5% of the total thrombin generation and are insensitive to the patients' natural anticoagulants. The investigators thus wish to analyze the coagulopathy of SARS-CoV-2 using a global analytical test reflecting the full complexity of thrombin generation then inhibition, the thrombin generation test (TGT), in its version designed to analyze the thrombotic risk (initiation by an intermediate concentration of human Tissue: 5 pM), in its fully automated and standardized technical version. This test analyzes not only the generation of thrombin and its various informative phases (initiation phase, propagation phase culminating at the peak of formation, inhibition phase with natural anticoagulants) but also the capacity for an exogenous addition of purified thrombomodulin (TM), which quantifies the anticoagulant activity of the patient's protein C activated by thrombin, to inhibit this generation of thrombin.

The aim is to assay this TGT version in a centralized way, on the patients' plasma obtained at hospital admission, just after checking the positive COVID-19 testing , together with the traditional blood tests including platelet counts, PT, D-dimers (DDi) and soluble fibrin monomers (FMs). The various quantitative biological parameters describing the results of the TGT assay, together with relevant covariates, will be tested using multivariate analysis for their capacity to be risk factors for clinically-relevant qualitative outcomes.

Conditions

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Sepsis Blood Coagulation Disorders Thrombin Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation COVID-19

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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Thrombin generation test assay

lag time, initial velocity, time-to-peak, thrombin peak, total thrombin generation time, extrinsic thrombin potential (ETP). Crude quantitative values and relative values (%, by reference to the one obtained with an invariant reference plasma). Both without the addition of purified thrombomodulin (TM-) and with the addition of purified thrombomodulin (TM+). The ability of TM to inhibit thrombin generation will be calculated as follows: \[ETP (%)(TM+) / ETP (%)(TM-)\].

Intervention Type OTHER

Fibrin generation markers assays

D-dimers (coagulation plus fibrinolysis), soluble fibrin monomers (coagulation only)

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patient with SARS-CoV-2 infection entering hospitalization with or without resuscitation
* The patient (or their carer) must have given their free and informed consent and signed the consent form
* The patient must be a member or beneficiary of a health insurance plan

Exclusion Criteria

* Pregnant or breastfeeding patient
* It is impossible to give the subject informed information
* The patient is under safeguard of justice or state guardianship
* Thrombotic events during treatment: flare-up of venous thromboembolism, flare-up of atherothrombosis.
* Long-term anticoagulant treatment (anti-vitamin K, direct oral anticoagulant).
* Chronic anti-aggregation treatment.
* Pre-existing constitutive or acquired known coagulation pathology: hemorrhagic diseases (thrombocytopenia, thrombocytopathy, hemophilia, von Willebrand's disease, hemorrhagiparous factor deficiency), and for thrombophilia (deficits in antithrombin, protein C or S , Factor V Leiden or Prothrombin 20201A mutation).
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Jean-Christophe Gris

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

CHU Nimes

Locations

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CHU de Bordeaux

Bordeaux, , France

Site Status

CHU de Limoges

Limoges, , France

Site Status

CHU de Montpellier

Montpellier, , France

Site Status

CHU de Nimes

Nîmes, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

References

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Gris JC, Guillotin F, Dos Santos TP, Chea M, Loubet P, Laureillard D, Sotto A, Muller L, Barbar SD, Roger C, Lefrant JY, Jung B, Klouche K, Mura T, Quere I, Perez-Martin A. Prognostic value of an automated thrombin generation assay in COVID-19 patients entering hospital: A multicentric, prospective observational study. Thromb Res. 2023 Feb;222:85-95. doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2022.12.019. Epub 2023 Jan 2.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 36608393 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2020-A01068-31

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

PHRC-I/2020/JCG-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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