Coronavirus InfectionPhase 2COMBATCOVID19NCT04363437
COlchicine in Moderate-severe Hospitalized Patients Before ARDS to Treat COVID-19
A Phase 2 study testing Colchicine in people with Coronavirus Infection, run by Maimonides Medical Center at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The most prevalent complication of COVID-19 infection is respiratory failure from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the leading cause of mortality. There is increasing indication that the decompensation in severe COVD-19 infection may be due to a cytokine storm syndrome. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 100 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Coronavirus Infection
- What is being tested?
- Colchicine
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 21 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 26 Apr 2020to 31 Jul 2020
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Are there results?
- Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view
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 to 100 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
None listed.
Who cannot join
- Requirement of oxygen supplementation >8L nasal cannula
- Pregnancy
- Known hypersensitivity to colchicine
- Patient currently in shock or with hemodynamic instability requiring pressors
- History of cirrhosis
- Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) > 5X upper limit of normal (ULN)
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- Patients with severe renal disease, CrCl <30ml/min
- Patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation at screening or Clinical estimation that the patient will require mechanical respiratory support within 24 hours
- Patient is currently taking colchicine for other indications (gout or Familial Mediterranean Fever)
- Patient received Remdesivir, Sarilumab, Tociluzimab, Lopinavir/Ritonavir or other immunomodulator given for COVID-19 treatment (Note: Convalescent plasma infusion is not an exclusion)
- Patient is on (and cannot discontinue) a strong CYP3A4 inhibitor (eg clarithromycin, indinavir, itraconazole, ketoconazole, nefazodone, nelfinavir, ritonavir, saquinavir, telithromycin, atazanavir), a moderate CYP3A4 inhbitor (eg diltiazem, verapamil, fluconazole, amprenavir, aprepitant, fosamprenavir) or a P-gp Inhibitor (eg cyclosporine, ranolazine)
- Patient is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer
- Patient is considered by the investigator, for any reason, to be unsuitable candidate for the study
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: COlchicine in Moderate-severe Hospitalized Patients Before ARDS to Treat COVID-19 (the COMBAT-COVID-19 Pilot Study)
The most prevalent complication of COVID-19 infection is respiratory failure from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the leading cause of mortality. There is increasing indication that the decompensation in severe COVD-19 infection may be due to a cytokine storm syndrome. This hyperinflammatory syndrome results in a fulminant and fatal hypercytokinemia and multiorgan failure.
Approximately 15% of patients with COVID-19 infection are hospitalized and 20-30% of these hospitalized patients require ICU care and/or mechanical ventilation. Overall mortality in hospitalized patients is approximately 20-25%. There is significant interest in therapies that can be given upstream to reduce the rate of mechanical ventilation and thus mortality.
We hypothesize that treatment with colchicine in COVID-19 moderate-severe patients may decrease the risk of progression into ARDS requiring increased oxygen requirements, mechanical ventilation, and mortality.
Read the detailed description
Prospective, completely randomized, open labeled, controlled study. Patients will be randomized into two groups (A and B). Patients of group A will be treated under what is considered current standard of care at Maimonides Medical Center while group B patients will receive colchicine in addition to standard of care.
Treatment arm
In addition to the local standard of care for COVID 19 patients, the patient will receive colchicine PO as such:
- Loading dose of 1.2 mg followed by 0.6mg after 2 hours if without significant gastrointestinal symptoms (day 1)
- The next day 0.6mg bid for 14 days or until discharge
Patients who are on HMG-Co A Reductase Inhibitors (atorvastatin, fluvastatin, pravastatin, simvastatin), fibrates, genfibrozil, amiodarone, dronedarone or digoxin should have the colchicine dosage reduced to a loading dose of 0.6mg followed by 0.3mg after two hours (day 1) followed by 0.3mg BID for 14 days or until discharge.
If patients have significant gastrointestinal symptoms after loading, the dosage may be reduced to 0.3mg BID for the rest of the 14 day course or until discharge. If gastrointestinal symptoms continue, the medication should then be discontinued. Patients who experience sensory motor neuropathy, or symptoms and laboratory findings consistent with rhabdomyolysis should prompt immediate discontinuation of the drug. If renal function deteriorates during the treatment course and CrCl <30ml/min, colchicine should also be discontinued.
Control arm Usual medical therapy (can include medications such as hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin)
Patients should NOT receive, Remdesivir, IL-6 inhibitors (Tociluzimab, Sarilumab), JAK inhibitors, IL-1 inhibitors, or other immunomodulators for COVID-19 before randomization. Since the primary clinical endpoint is progression of disease, if the patient requires beyond 8L nasal cannula, eg. high flow O2 or mechanical ventilation, the primary clinical endpoint is met and the above experimental medications will be permitted. To rephrase, the patient will be allowed, Remdesivir, IL-6 inhibitors and other immunomodulators if then deemed medically necessary by the treating physician.
- Conditions
- Coronavirus Infection
- Being tested
- Colchicine, Usual Care
- Keywords
- colchicine, anti-inflammatory
- Medical subject headings
- Coronavirus Infections
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
ColchicineDrug
People in the colchine group will be given a starting dose of 1.2 mg followed, by 0.6mg after 2 hours if they do not have significant gastrointestinal symptoms, on day 1. After that, they will take colchicine 0.6mg twice a day for 14 days or until discharged or release from the hospital.
Usual CareDrug
COVID Patients in this arm will receive usual care COVID19 treatment and will not receive colchine.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Colchine | Active comparator | Not described Receives: Drug: Colchicine |
| Usual Care | Active comparator | Not described Receives: Drug: Usual Care |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Percentage of Patients Requiring Supplemental Oxygen Beyond 8L Nasal Cannula
Measured: through study completion, estimated 2 months
Secondary outcomes (2)
Percentage of Patients Who Will Require Mechanical Ventillation
Measured: through study completion, estimated 2 months
Mortality
Measured: through study completion, estimated 2 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted27 Apr 2020
- Study start26 Apr 2020
- Primary completion31 Jul 2020
- Study completion31 Jul 2020
Why it stopped: Stopped due to widespread corticosteroid use in 2020 for COVID infection, which confounds and likely supercedes the effect of colchicine.
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, outcome measures and adverse events reported by the sponsor.
- Other trials for Coronavirus InfectionStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
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 2
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 21 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Maimonides Medical Center
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Felix Yang, MD, Principal investigator, Maimonides Medical Center
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04363437
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2020-04-12
- Acronym
- COMBATCOVID19
- Status last verified
- Jan 2022
- First submitted
- 23 Apr 2020
- Last updated
- 18 Feb 2022
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- Yes
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 18 Feb 2022. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- COlchicine in Moderate-severe Hospitalized Patients Before ARDS to Treat COVID-19 (the COMBAT-COVID-19 Pilot Study)
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04363437
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- COMBATCOVID19 / 2020-04-12
- Conditions
- Coronavirus Infection
- Keywords
- colchicine, anti-inflammatory
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- TerminatedReason stopped: Stopped due to widespread corticosteroid use in 2020 for COVID infection, which confounds and likely supercedes the effect of colchicine.
- Enrolment
- 21 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Maimonides Medical CenterUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 26 Apr 2020 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 31 Jul 2020 (actual)
- Study completion
- 31 Jul 2020 (actual)
- First posted
- 27 Apr 2020 (actual)
- Results
- Posted 18 Feb 2022
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The most prevalent complication of COVID-19 infection is respiratory failure from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the leading cause of mortality. There is increasing indication that the decompensation in severe COVD-19 infection may be due to a cytokine storm syndrome. This hyperinflammatory syndrome results in a fulminant and fatal hypercytokinemia and multiorgan failure.
Approximately 15% of patients with COVID-19 infection are hospitalized and 20-30% of these hospitalized patients require ICU care and/or mechanical ventilation. Overall mortality in hospitalized patients is approximately 20-25%. There is significant interest in therapies that can be given upstream to reduce the rate of mechanical ventilation and thus mortality.
We hypothesize that treatment with colchicine in COVID-19 moderate-severe patients may decrease the risk of progression into ARDS requiring increased oxygen requirements, mechanical ventilation, and mortality.
Detailed description
Prospective, completely randomized, open labeled, controlled study. Patients will be randomized into two groups (A and B). Patients of group A will be treated under what is considered current standard of care at Maimonides Medical Center while group B patients will receive colchicine in addition to standard of care.
Treatment arm
In addition to the local standard of care for COVID 19 patients, the patient will receive colchicine PO as such:
- Loading dose of 1.2 mg followed by 0.6mg after 2 hours if without significant gastrointestinal symptoms (day 1)
- The next day 0.6mg bid for 14 days or until discharge
Patients who are on HMG-Co A Reductase Inhibitors (atorvastatin, fluvastatin, pravastatin, simvastatin), fibrates, genfibrozil, amiodarone, dronedarone or digoxin should have the colchicine dosage reduced to a loading dose of 0.6mg followed by 0.3mg after two hours (day 1) followed by 0.3mg BID for 14 days or until discharge.
If patients have significant gastrointestinal symptoms after loading, the dosage may be reduced to 0.3mg BID for the rest of the 14 day course or until discharge. If gastrointestinal symptoms continue, the medication should then be discontinued. Patients who experience sensory motor neuropathy, or symptoms and laboratory findings consistent with rhabdomyolysis should prompt immediate discontinuation of the drug. If renal function deteriorates during the treatment course and CrCl <30ml/min, colchicine should also be discontinued.
Control arm Usual medical therapy (can include medications such as hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin)
Patients should NOT receive, Remdesivir, IL-6 inhibitors (Tociluzimab, Sarilumab), JAK inhibitors, IL-1 inhibitors, or other immunomodulators for COVID-19 before randomization. Since the primary clinical endpoint is progression of disease, if the patient requires beyond 8L nasal cannula, eg. high flow O2 or mechanical ventilation, the primary clinical endpoint is met and the above experimental medications will be permitted. To rephrase, the patient will be allowed, Remdesivir, IL-6 inhibitors and other immunomodulators if then deemed medically necessary by the treating physician.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Colchine | Active comparator | Drug: Colchicine |
| Usual Care | Active comparator | Drug: Usual Care |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 100 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (0 listed)
Key exclusion criteria (13 listed)
- Requirement of oxygen supplementation >8L nasal cannula
- Pregnancy
- Known hypersensitivity to colchicine
- Patient currently in shock or with hemodynamic instability requiring pressors
- History of cirrhosis
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| ColchicinePeople in the colchine group will be given a starting dose of 1.2 mg followed, by 0.6mg after 2 hours if they do not have significant gastrointestinal symptoms, on day 1. After that, they will take colchicine 0.6mg twice a day for 14 days or until discharged or release from the hospital. | Drug | Colchine |
| Usual CareCOVID Patients in this arm will receive usual care COVID19 treatment and will not receive colchine. | Drug | Usual Care |
Primary outcome
Percentage of Patients Requiring Supplemental Oxygen Beyond 8L Nasal Cannula
Time frame: through study completion, estimated 2 months
2 secondary outcomes
Percentage of Patients Who Will Require Mechanical Ventillation
Time frame: through study completion, estimated 2 months
Mortality
Time frame: through study completion, estimated 2 months
Results and safety
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Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 18 Feb 2022.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, baseline, all outcome measures and adverse events.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Felix Yang, MD principal investigator
Maimonides Medical Center
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A Phase 2 study testing Colchicine in people with Coronavirus Infection, run by Maimonides Medical Center 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 0 inclusion and 13 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: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 18 Feb 2022. 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. 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 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.
Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.
Are results available for this study?
Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 18 Feb 2022). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.
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?
Percentage of Patients Requiring Supplemental Oxygen Beyond 8L Nasal Cannula (time frame: through study completion, estimated 2 months). 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 18 Feb 2022.