Post COVID-19 Condition

NCT ID: NCT05531773

Last Updated: 2025-09-19

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

2300 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-07-01

Study Completion Date

2025-12-15

Brief Summary

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The EuCARE-POSTCOVID study is an observational multicentre study enrolling COVID-19 patients recovered from the acute phase of disease to investigate the prevalence and possible predictors of post COVID-19 condition. The study will retrospectively analyze data already collected at the post COVID-19 outpatients services of the participating centers; furthermore, a prospective cohort study will be performed.

Detailed Description

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Background:

The EuCARE project includes several cohorts of patients and schools to provide an advance response to COVID-19 epidemics. The cohorts belong to different geographic areas including European countries, Kenya, Mexico, Russia and Vietnam, and will consolidate or expand interactions with other cohorts. A comprehensive multidisciplinary team of clinicians, virologists, epidemiologists, statisticians and top experts in artificial intelligence will collaborate to investigate:

* the natural and artificial immunity to the different viral variants in health care workers;
* the clinical course and long-term follow up of hospitalized COVID-19 patients to derive the role of different viral variants in the outcome of the infection, including post COVID-19 condition;
* the best strategies to control the spread of different viral variants in schools, by comparing the outcome of diverse containment and prevention measures in relation to the prevalence and dynamics of the variants.

Post COVID-19 condition is defined as the persistence or new onset of symptoms 3 months after an acute episode of COVID-19; these symptoms could last 2 or even more months and are not explained by an alternative diagnosis. The prevalence of these ongoing symptoms is very variable among the different studies, but seems high, affecting up to 50-60% of recovered patients.

Moreover, the post COVID-19 condition is described more commonly in females and more severe patients, but can be observed at all ages and in patients with a mild acute episode of COVID-19 disease.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The hypothesis of the study is that a relatively high proportion of patients recovered from an acute COVID-19 episode develops long-term sequelae, defined as the presence of ongoing or new onset physical and/or psychological symptoms at three months after the acute illness. These symptoms could last at least two months or even longer.

The mechanisms underpinning the post-acute and chronic manifestations of COVID-19 are not entirely understood.

The predictors of post COVID-19 condition have not yet identified, but the first evidence suggest that patients experiencing persistent symptoms, at 4-weeks or 8-weeks after the acute disease, were more likely elderly, females and hospitalized in the acute phase compared to the patients reporting symptoms for a short period of time (Carole et al, 2021).

We also hypothesized that older age, female gender, severity of disease and previous patients' comorbidities could be risk factors for the development of post COVID-19 condition.

Finally, our hypothesis is that the new variant "Omicron" could be associated with a lower inflammation and disease's severity during the acute phase and, thus, with a lower incidence of post COVID-19 condition.

Study objective:

Primary objective is to assess the incidence and risk factors of post COVID-19 condition in a cohort of recovered COVID-19 patients.

Secondary objectives are:

to evaluate the association between circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants and risk of post COVID-19 condition; to evaluate long-term residual organ damage (lung, hearth, Central Nervous System, CNS, Peripheral Nervous System, PNS) in relation to patient's characteristics and virology (variant, viral load in the acute phase).

Conditions

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COVID-19

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

OTHER

Study Groups

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COVID-19 patients

patients recovered from an acute COVID-19 episode

follow up of COVID-19 Patients

Intervention Type OTHER

In each participating center a post COVID-19 outpatient clinic is already working or will be settled up to care COVID-19 patients after the acute phase. At the post COVID-19 clinic patients will undergo routine blood exams and will be visited by Infectious Diseases physicians after recovery from the acute episode of COVID-19 disease. According to the clinical issues of the patients and the procedures of the study, if necessary, the patients will be visited by other practitioners (Pneumologists, Cardiologists, Neurologists, Physiatrist and Psychologists or others).

Patients who have been already visited at the post COVID outpatient clinics from 01/03/2020 and for whom data of the acute phase and the follow up have been collected will be enrolled in the study and retrospectively analyzed.

Interventions

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follow up of COVID-19 Patients

In each participating center a post COVID-19 outpatient clinic is already working or will be settled up to care COVID-19 patients after the acute phase. At the post COVID-19 clinic patients will undergo routine blood exams and will be visited by Infectious Diseases physicians after recovery from the acute episode of COVID-19 disease. According to the clinical issues of the patients and the procedures of the study, if necessary, the patients will be visited by other practitioners (Pneumologists, Cardiologists, Neurologists, Physiatrist and Psychologists or others).

Patients who have been already visited at the post COVID outpatient clinics from 01/03/2020 and for whom data of the acute phase and the follow up have been collected will be enrolled in the study and retrospectively analyzed.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adult patients, \>18 years old;
* Confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 disease (positive SARS CoV-2 RNA on naso- pharyngeal swab or upper respiratory sample);
* Mild COVID-19 disease without hospital admission or moderate/severe disease requiring hospital admission for COVID-19 or hospitalization for other medical issues with a positive SARS CoV-2 RNA sample;
* Informed consent for the study.

Exclusion Criteria

* death during hospitalization:
* patient's decline to participate in the study.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Rome Tor Vergata

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad "Dr. Juan Graham Casasus"

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

St Mary's Hospital, London

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Ocidental

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Euresist Network GEIE

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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ANTONELLA D'ARMINIO MONFORTE, PROF

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

ASST SANTI GIOVANNI E CARLO

Locations

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University Hospital Heinrich Heine

Düsseldorf, , Germany

Site Status RECRUITING

Policlinico "Tor Vergata", Università degli Studi di Roma TOR VERGATA

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Site Status RECRUITING

ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Site Status RECRUITING

Vilnius University Hospital, Santaros Klinikos

Vilnius, , Lithuania

Site Status RECRUITING

Regional Hospital Dr. Juan Graham Casasús

Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico

Site Status RECRUITING

Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental

Lisbon, , Portugal

Site Status RECRUITING

St. Mary Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

London, , United Kingdom

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Germany Italy Lithuania Mexico Portugal United Kingdom

Central Contacts

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FRANCESCA INCARDONA, DR

Role: CONTACT

+393356112830

ANTONELLA D'ARMINIO MONFORTE, PROF

Role: CONTACT

+390281843045

Facility Contacts

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BJOERN JENSEN

Role: primary

FRANCESCA CECCHERINI SILBERSTEIN, PROF

Role: primary

ANTONELLA D'ARMINIO MONFORTE, PROF

Role: primary

+390281843045-6

DANIEL NAUMOVAS, DR

Role: primary

Gibran Rubio Quintanares, DR

Role: primary

CRISTINA TOSCANO, DR

Role: primary

FRANCIS Drobniewski, PROF

Role: primary

References

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Varisco B, Bai F, De Benedittis S, Tavelli A, Cozzi-Lepri A, Sala M, Miraglia FG, Santoro MM, Ceccherini-Silberstein F, Shimoni Y, Ravid S, Kozlovski T, Konig F, Pfeifer N, Shamsara E, Parczewski M, Monforte AD, Incardona F, Mommo C, Marchetti G. EuCARE-POSTCOVID Study: a multicentre cohort study on long-term post-COVID-19 manifestations. BMC Infect Dis. 2023 Oct 13;23(1):684. doi: 10.1186/s12879-023-08595-0.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 37833640 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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EuCARE - PostCOVID

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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