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. 2024 Feb 5;2024(2):CD015219. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015219.pub2

NCT04310228.

Study name Favipiravir combined with tocilizumab in the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019
Methods Randomized control trial
Participants Inclusion criteria
  • Clinically diagnosed with Coronavirus Disease 2019

  • Increased interleukin‐6

  • Sign the informed consent

  • Can take medicine orally

  • Agree to collect clinical samples

  • Females of childbearing age are not pregnant and agree to take effective contraception within 7 days of the last oral medication to ensure that they are not pregnant within 3 to 6 months.

  • Males agree to effective contraception within 7 days of the last oral medication.


Exclusion criteria
  • Cases of severe vomiting that make it difficult to take the drug orally

  • Allergic to favipiravir or tocilizumab

  • Pregnant and lactating women

  • Received specific antiviral drugs such as lopinavir/ritonavir, ribavirin, arbidol, chloroquine phosphate, hydroxychloroquine, and monoclonal antibodies within one week before admission

  • Cases of respiratory failure and requiring mechanical ventilation

  • Cases of shock

  • Combined organ failure that requires ICU monitoring and treatment

  • Predicted clinically that there is no hope of survival, or cases of deep coma that do not respond to supportive treatment measures within three hours of admission

  • Alanine aminotransferase/aspartate aminotransferase > 5 times the upper limit of normal

  • Neutrophils < 0.5 × 10^9/L, platelets less than 50 × 10^9/L

  • Clear diagnosis of rheumatoid immunity, malignant tumours, and other related diseases

  • Long‐term oral anti‐rejection drugs or immunomodulatory drugs

  • Allergic reactions to tocilizumab or any excipients

  • Patients with active hepatitis, tuberculosis, and definite bacterial and fungal infections

  • Organ transplant patients

  • People with mental disorders

Interventions Drug: favipiravir combined with tocilizumab
Drug: favipiravir
Drug: tocilizumab
Outcomes
  • Viral nucleic acid test negative conversion rate and days from positive to negative

  • Duration of fever ‐ time frame: 14 days after taking medicine

  • Lung imaging improvement time ‐ time frame: 14 days after taking medicine

  • Mortality rate because of Coronavirus Disease 2019 ‐ time frame: 3 months

  • Rate of non‐invasive or invasive mechanical ventilation when respiratory failure occurs ‐ time frame: 3 months

  • Mean in‐hospital time ‐ time frame: 3 months

Starting date 08 March 2020
Contact information Guiqiang Wang; Peking University First Hospital
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