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Multiple Organ FailurePhase 3NCT03968640

Efficacy of Coenzyme Q10 Supplementation on Multi-Organ Dysfunction in Severely Burned Patients

A Phase 3 study testing CoQ10 in people with Multiple Organ Failure, run by American Burn Association at 1 site in United States.

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Trial summary

This multi-center prospective intervention study is designed to develop coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) supplementation as a cost-effective adjunctive therapy for burn injury. The long-term goals of this project are to establish the beneficial effects of CoQ10 on multiple organ dysfunction and on the clinical and functional… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Multiple Organ Failure
What is being tested?
CoQ10
Type of treatment
Pill or oral medicine
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
0 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
1 Jul 2018to 17 Jul 2020
Phase
Phase 3
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Age 18 years and older
  • Burn patients with 20% or greater of total body surface area (TBSA) burn and equal to or less than 70% TBSA burn
  • Capable of receiving routine oral, enteral nutrition, or a combination of routine oral and enteral nutrition
  • Enrolled within 72 hours after burn injury
  • Patient or legally authorized representative (LAR) who is capable of giving full informed consent
  • Anticipated hospital stay: 2 weeks or more

Who cannot join

  • Patients with liver disease (bilirubin greater than 3 or diagnosis of liver cirrhosis) at the time of admission, hyperthyroidism that currently requires treatment, diagnosis of chronic heart failure, chronic renal failure requiring hemodialysis, malignancy currently undergoing treatment, or history of cancer or hematological malignancy treatment within 5 years
  • History of HIV or AIDS
  • Presence of concurrent injuries apart from burn injury that may produce long-term disabilities (e.g., spinal cord injury, anoxic brain injury)
  • Participation in another research study that may confound the results of this study in the opinion of the site principal investigator
  • Pregnant women
  • Prisoners

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • UTMB

    Galveston, Texas, 77555

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About this study

This multi-center prospective intervention study is designed to develop coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) supplementation as a cost-effective adjunctive therapy for burn injury. The long-term goals of this project are to establish the beneficial effects of CoQ10 on multiple organ dysfunction and on the clinical and functional outcomes of burn victims.

Read the detailed description

Burns represent one of the most excruciating and devastating battlefield injuries. Based on estimates reported in 2010, burn injuries account for 603,000 visits to US emergency departments and 50,000 hospital admissions each year. The annualized cost of these hospitalizations totals $1 billion. Despite recent advances in acute critical care, the damage that occurs to organs and systems (e.g., heart, liver, kidney, lung, and immune cells) in the sub-acute phase of severe burn injury remains a major challenge to achieving further reductions in mortality and improvements in the long-term clinical and functional outcomes of burn.

The treatment proposed in this study targets the mitochondria, organelles that are crucial for the survival and function of every cell type within the body. Known as the power plants of cells, the mitochondria generate energy and also function as critical regulators of cellular life, death, and inflammation. Burn injury damages the mitochondria in cells close to and distant from the injury site. This, in turn, complicates the patient's critical illness by causing multiple organ dysfunction. The mitochondria, therefore, pose a plausible potential target to further improve the clinical outcome of burn patients. Nonetheless, therapies that target the mitochondria have not yet been studied in burn patients.

CoQ10 is an essential nutrient that is vital to the function and integrity of the mitochondria. CoQ10 deficiency causes mitochondrial dysfunction and thereby induces dysfunction in multiple organs, including liver, heart, immune cells (i.e., white blood cells), brain, and muscle. In a pilot clinical study of CoQ10, we showed that burn injury causes CoQ10 deficiency, which is reversed by CoQ10 supplementation. In our preclinical study in mice, CoQ10 administration prevented mitochondrial damage, systemic inflammation, and metabolic dysfunction in burned animals, and improved survival and bacterial killing activity in animals with severe infection. Our data indicate that CoQ10 deficiency caused by burn injury may worsen the patient's clinical condition. Since CoQ10 supplementation is capable of reversing CoQ10 deficiency, which, in turn, may prevent mitochondrial damage and subsequent dysfunction of multiple organs, it is a plausible therapy for preventing mortality and promoting recovery in burn patients.

Two hundred ninety eligible burn patients admitted to any of the 15 military and civilian hospitals participating in this study will be enrolled within 48 hours after severe burn injury and randomly assigned to either CoQ10 (n=150) or Placebo (n=150) group. The safety and the efficacy of CoQ10 on multiple organ dysfunction and death, length of hospital stay, mitochondrial damage, and muscle wasting will be studied in comparison with Placebo.

Being tested
CoQ10, Placebo
Keywords
MODS
Medical subject headings
Multiple Organ Failure

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • CoQ10Dietary supplement

    Also called Ubiquinol

    The intervention will consist of a loading dose of reduced form CoQ10 of 1,800 mg/day tid for 4 weeks to be followed by a maintenance dose of 600 mg/day once daily from weeks 5 to 12. The intervention or allocation-controlled placebo will be administered by 72 hours after injury and will continue until 12 weeks after injury or until death or discharge, whichever comes first. Oral tablets (600 mg/tablet) will be administered to CoQ10 subjects who can swallow while a liquid form (100 mg/mL) will be administered to CoQ10 subjects requiring an enteral tube for nutrition.

  • PlaceboDietary supplement

    The intervention will consist of a loading dose of reduced form CoQ10 of 1,800 mg/day tid for 4 weeks to be followed by a maintenance dose of 600 mg/day once daily from weeks 5 to 12. The intervention or allocation-controlled placebo will be administered by 72 hours after injury and will continue until 12 weeks after injury or until death or discharge, whichever comes first. Oral tablets (600 mg/tablet) will be administered to CoQ10 subjects who can swallow while a liquid form (100 mg/mL) will be administered to CoQ10 subjects requiring an enteral tube for nutrition.

Study groups in NCT03968640
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
CoQ10 groupActive comparatorThe patients assigned to the CoQ10 group will receive the loading dose of CoQ10 (1,800 mg/day) for 4 weeks followed by the maintenance dose of CoQ10 (600 mg/day) for 8 weeks or until hospital discharge, whichever comes first.
Receives: Dietary Supplement: CoQ10
PlaceboPlacebo comparatorAllocation-concealed placebo will be used as an appropriate control.
Receives: Dietary Supplement: Placebo

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Evaluate the efficacy of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients in the mitigation of multi-organ dysfunction (MODS)

    Evaluated by the number of the six events (i.e., renal, respiratory, cardiovascular and liver dysfunction, coagulopathy, and death

    Measured: 12 weeks

Secondary outcomes (12)
  1. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    The six individual organ systems comprising the MODS score and their times of occurrences.

    Measured: 12 weeks

  2. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    The weighted composite score of the six constituents

    Measured: 12 weeks

  3. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    The maximum total Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score

    Measured: 12 weeks

  4. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    The maximum SOFA score for each organ

    Measured: 12 weeks

  5. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    AUC of total SOFA score (score x days)

    Measured: 12 weeks

  6. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    AUC of SOFA score for each organ (score x days)

    Measured: 12 weeks

  7. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    Delirium (CAM-ICU) (number of days)

    Measured: 12 weeks

  8. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    Length of hospital stay (number of days)

    Measured: 12 weeks

  9. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    Sepsis (Sepsis-3) (number of incidence)

    Measured: 12 weeks

  10. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) (number of incidence)

    Measured: 12 weeks

  11. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    Plasma mitochondrial DNA (4 blood collections)

    Measured: 12 weeks

  12. Evaluate the effect of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients on the following clinical outcome events and biochemical measurements in plasma and urine.

    3-Methylhistidine (3-MH) and creatinine in urine (a biomarker of muscle wasting)

    Measured: 12 weeks

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted30 May 2019
  2. Study start1 Jul 2018 (estimated)
  3. Primary completion17 Jul 2020 (estimated)
  4. Study completion17 Jul 2020 (estimated)

Why it stopped: Sponsor terminated award

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
Multicenter two-arm prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. 290 eligible burn patients admitted to military/civilian hospitals to be enrolled within 48 hours after severe burn injury (20%-70% TBSA burn) \& randomly assigned to either CoQ10 (n=145) or Placebo (n=145) groups. Patients in the CoQ10 group to receive loading dose of CoQ10 (1,800 mg/day) for 4 weeks and then maintenance dose of CoQ10 (600 mg/day) for 8 weeks or until hospital discharge. Allocation-concealed placebo will be used as an appropriate control.
Masking
Quadruple blind
Who is masked
Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
0 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03968640
Sponsor's protocol ID
ABA-MCTG-0005
Other IDs
W81XWH-18-2-0030
Status last verified
Jul 2023
First submitted
28 May 2019
Last updated
20 Jul 2023
Results posted
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing CoQ10 in people with Multiple Organ Failure, run by American Burn Association at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 6 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 20 Jul 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Evaluate the efficacy of reduced form CoQ10 (ubiquinol) supplementation in severely burned adult patients in the mitigation of multi-organ dysfunction (MODS) (time frame: 12 weeks). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 20 Jul 2023.

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