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NCT05182515: EPIC

Plasma Exchange in Covid-19 Patients With Anti-interferon Autoantibodies

Status unknown Phase 3 Last updated 10 January 2022
What this trial tests

Phase 3 trial testing Therapeutic plasma exchange in COVID-19 in 50 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline
22 December 2021
Primary endpoint
22 March 2022
22 March 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsorCentre Hospitalier St Anne
PhasePhase 3
StatusStatus unknown
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationrandomized
Designparallel
Maskingnone
Primary purposetreatment
Enrollment50
Start date22 December 2021
Primary completion22 March 2022
Estimated completion22 March 2022
Sites1 location across France

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Centre Hospitalier St Anne

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with COVID-19. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

COVID-19 associated mortality remains high despite the advances in therapeutics such as dexamethasone. The severity of COVID-19 results from direct viral cytotoxicity, and the inflammatory response, which is associated with a hypercoagulable state, contribute to lethal hypoxemic pneumonia. During the SARS-CoV-2 replication phase, infected cells secrete chemokines and die by activating the immune system locally. A local inflammatory loop induces tissue destruction, which activates the immune system's circulating cells, leading to another amplifying loop called the cytokine storm. In these phenomena, the integrity of the interferon pathway plays a significant role. Specific impairment of the interferon pathway has been identified in a subset of patients and is associated with high Covid-19 severity. This subset of patients presents preexisting autoimmune disease mediated by autoantibodies directed against IFN. It represents 10.2% (101/987) of patients admitted in ICU with COVID-19 pneumonia, and the observed mortality in this subgroup is 40%. The investigators hypothesized that plasma exchanges (PE) would eliminate these autoantibodies while acting on other mechanisms of the pathogenesis of severe COVID-19, such as cytokine storm or hypercoagulability(7). The EPIC trial aims to demonstrate the efficacy of plasma exchange in the subpopulation of patients with anti-interferon autoantibodies and severe COVID-19 hospitalized in intensive care and on oxygen therapy, high flow or not, receiving non-ventilation or invasive ventilation, on D28 survival.

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