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. 2020 Jul 10;2020(7):CD013600. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013600.pub2

NCT04348877.

Study name Plasma rich antibodies from recovered patients from COVID19 (PRA‐001)
Methods
  • Trial design: single‐arm, interventional

  • Sample size: 20

  • Setting: critically ill patients

  • Country: Egypt

  • Language: English 

  • Number of centres: 1

Participants
  • Inclusion criteria

    • 18‐80 years old

    • Laboratory‐confirmed COVID‐19

    • Severe or immediately life‐threatening COVID‐19 (severe disease is defined as: dyspnoea, respiratory frequency ≥ 30/min, blood oxygen saturation ≤ 93%, PaO2/FiO2 < 300, and/or lung infiltrates > 50% within 24‐48 h. Life‐threatening disease is defined as: respiratory failure, septic shock, and/or multiple organ dysfunction or failure)

    • Must provide informed consent by patient or his/her legal guardian or professional legal representative

  • Exclusion criteria

    • Mild or moderate COVID‐19

    • Participation in any investigational clinical study, other than observational, within the past 30 days; or plans to participate in such a study at any time from the day of enrolment until 30 days post‐treatment in the current study

Interventions
  • CP therapy or hyperimmune globulin therapy: CP therapy

  • Details of CP:

    • type of plasma: other details not specified

    • volume: 400 mL

    • number of doses: NR

    • antibody‐titre: NR

    • pathogen inactivated or not: NR

  • Treatment details, including time of plasma therapy (e.g. early stage of disease): NR

  • For studies including a control group: comparator (type): none

  • Concomitant therapy: standard of care (antiviral, hydroxychloroquine and antibiotics)

    • (oseltamivir (75 mg/12 h for 5‐10 days) and hydroxychloroquine (400 mg twice in first day, 200 twice for 4‐9 days) ± azithromycin 500 mg daily for 5 days

  • Treatment cross‐overs: none

Outcomes
  • Primary study outcome: viral COVID‐19 clearance 

  • Primary review outcomes

    • All‐cause mortality at hospital discharge: NR

    • Time to death: NR

  • Secondary review outcomes

    • Number of participants with grade 3 and grade 4 AEs, including potential relationship between intervention and adverse reaction (e.g. TRALI, transfusion‐transmitted infection, TACO, TAD, acute transfusion reactions): NR

    • Number of participants with SAEs: NR

    • Improvement of clinical symptoms, assessed through need for respiratory support at up to 7 days; 8‐15 days; 16‐30 days: NR

    • 30‐day and 90‐day mortality: NR

    • Admission on the ICU: NR

    • Length of stay on the ICU: NR

    • Time to discharge from hospital: NR

    • QoL: NR

  • Additional outcomes

    • Viral COVID‐19 clearance (time frame: 14 days)

    • Radiological improvement (time frame: 14 days)

    • Clinical improvement in form of normal body temperature for 48 h (time frame: 14 days)

Starting date 20 April 2020
Contact information Hossam Fahmy, Professor of Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University
Notes
  • Recruitment status: not yet recruiting 

  • Prospective completion date: December 2020

  • Sponsor/funding: Ain Shams University