Methylprednisolone in COVID-19 Patients (Methyl19LGH)

NCT ID: NCT04559113

Last Updated: 2020-12-08

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

200 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-05-01

Study Completion Date

2020-12-30

Brief Summary

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In COVID-19 deep airway and alveolar destruction occurred due to inflammatory reaction resulting into severe pneumonia. In COVID-19, lung injury is not only due to viral damage to tissue, but it is also due to immune response that leads to activation of inflammatory cells and release of cytokines. In COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome ARDS is produced due to mucinous or cellular fibromyxoid exudates, desquamation of pneumocytes and alveolar damage and hyaline membrane development and within 5-7 days disease become more aggressive due to pneumonia and respiratory failure. It is important to start the prompt and strengthen treatment for suppression of inflammatory response and cytokine storm. Methylprednisolone are the traditional immunosuppressive drugs. They are important and effective to delay the pneumonia progression and treating the ARDS.

Corticosteroids are broadly used as treatment for ARDS and there was an evidence for its efficacy for treating SARS and decreasing mortality of SARS in the past. However for COVID-19 corticosteroids efficacy and safety usage is still under clinical trials

Detailed Description

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All new decision and new interventions that are made for decreasing dependency of ventilator in patients and decreasing patients mortality would have played a great role on global public health. The aim of the study is to address the efficacy of methlyprednisolone for the treatment of COVID-19 patients and its clinical outcome at a tertriary care hospital.

Conditions

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SARS-CoV Infection SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)

Keywords

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COVID-19 Methylprednisolone Clinical outcome

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

quasi-experimental
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Group intervene with Methylprednisolone

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Anyone of the following Corticosteroids dose will be given to moderate disease patients of COVID-19

1. 0.5mg to 1mg/Kg methylprednisolone or equivalent dexamethasone dose (to a maximum of 20mg) given daily x 5 to 7-days or
2. Methylprednisolone 1 mg/kg daily IV for 5 days followed by 40 mg daily x 3 days, followed by 10 mg daily x 2 day. \*Note: in Diabetic patients' dose of methyl prednisolone should be divided in doses preferably 40mg BD.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Methylprednisolone Injectable Product

Intervention Type DRUG

1. 0.5mg to 1mg/Kg methylprednisolone or equivalent dexamethasone dose (to a maximum of 20mg) given daily x 5 to 7-days or
2. Methylprednisolone 1 mg/kg daily IV for 5 days followed by 40 mg daily x 3 days, followed by 10 mg daily x 2 day.

Interventions

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Methylprednisolone Injectable Product

1. 0.5mg to 1mg/Kg methylprednisolone or equivalent dexamethasone dose (to a maximum of 20mg) given daily x 5 to 7-days or
2. Methylprednisolone 1 mg/kg daily IV for 5 days followed by 40 mg daily x 3 days, followed by 10 mg daily x 2 day.

Intervention Type DRUG

Other Intervention Names

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solu madrol

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All patients of all ages, males, and females who will be diagnosed COVID-19 positive by RT-PCR with moderate illness.
* Patients having classical radiological lesions of COVID-19 on X-ray chest or HRCT chest.
* Respiratory rate \> 22/ min and \>50% of radiological involvement of lung with typical lesions.
* FiO2 remain static or improving, along with \> 30% deranged ≥ 2 biochemical markers CRP \> 20 mg/l, LDH \> 600 U/L, D.Dimer \> 0.5mg/l or 500 ng/ml, Serum Ferritin \< 500 ng/ml or mcg/l will be included in clinical trial.

Exclusion Criteria

* Heart failure,
* Cardiac arrest
* Decompensated liver cirrhosis,
* Decompensated psychiatric disorder
* Contraindication for corticosteroids
* Leukopenia \<1000/mm or neutropenia \<500/mm
* Recent or history of bone marrow or solid organ transplantation
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

80 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Lahore General Hospital

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Dr. M.Irfan Malik

Associate Professor of Pulmonology / Focal Person COVID-19

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Sardar Al-Fareed Zafar, FCPS

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Post-Graduate Medical Institute, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore Pakistan

Locations

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Muhammad Irfan Malik

Lahore, Punjab Province, Pakistan

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Pakistan

Central Contacts

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Muhammad Irfan Malik, FCPS

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 03334367220

Email: [email protected]

Sardar Al-Fareed Zafar, FCPS

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 03214056891

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Muhammad Irfan malik, FCPS

Role: primary

References

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Wang Y, Jiang W, He Q, Wang C, Wang B, Zhou P, Dong N, Tong Q. A retrospective cohort study of methylprednisolone therapy in severe patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. Signal Transduct Target Ther. 2020 Apr 28;5(1):57. doi: 10.1038/s41392-020-0158-2. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32341331 (View on PubMed)

Xu Z, Shi L, Wang Y, Zhang J, Huang L, Zhang C, Liu S, Zhao P, Liu H, Zhu L, Tai Y, Bai C, Gao T, Song J, Xia P, Dong J, Zhao J, Wang FS. Pathological findings of COVID-19 associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Lancet Respir Med. 2020 Apr;8(4):420-422. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30076-X. Epub 2020 Feb 18. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 32085846 (View on PubMed)

Huang C, Wang Y, Li X, Ren L, Zhao J, Hu Y, Zhang L, Fan G, Xu J, Gu X, Cheng Z, Yu T, Xia J, Wei Y, Wu W, Xie X, Yin W, Li H, Liu M, Xiao Y, Gao H, Guo L, Xie J, Wang G, Jiang R, Gao Z, Jin Q, Wang J, Cao B. Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China. Lancet. 2020 Feb 15;395(10223):497-506. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30183-5. Epub 2020 Jan 24.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 31986264 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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LGH005

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id