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Severe COVID-19 PneumoniaPhase 2ANTICOVIDNCT04808882

ANTIcoagulation in Severe COVID-19 Patients

A Phase 2 study testing Tinzaparin, Low dose prophylactic anticoagulation, Tinzaparin, High dose prophylactic anticoagulation and Tinzaparin,Therapeutic anticoagulation in people with Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia, run by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris at 1 site in France.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a viral respiratory illness caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), may predispose patients to thrombotic disease due to a state of profound inflammation, platelet activation, and endothelial dysfunction leading to respiratory distress and… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia
What is being tested?
Tinzaparin, Low dose prophylactic anticoagulation, Tinzaparin, High dose prophylactic anticoagulation and Tinzaparin,Therapeutic anticoagulation
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
353 participants
Where
1 siteFrance
Study dates
14 Apr 2021to 13 Mar 2022
Phase
Phase 2
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 ;
  • Severe COVID-19 pneumonia, defined by:
  • A newly-appeared pulmonary parenchymal infiltrate; AND
  • a positive RT-PCR (either upper or lower respiratory tract) for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2); AND
  • WHO progression scale ≥ 5 (on The Who ordinal scale)
  • Written informed consent (patient, next of skin or emergency situation).
  • In view of the exceptional and urgent situation, affiliation to a social security scheme will not be a criterion for inclusion.

Who cannot join

  • Pregnancy and breast feeding woman;
  • Postpartum (6 weeks);
  • Extreme weights (<40 kg or >100 kg);
  • Patients admitted since more than 72 hours to the hospital (if the WHO ordinal scale is 5 at time of inclusion) or since more than 72 hours to the intensive care unit (if the WHO ordinal scale is 6 or more at time of inclusion);
  • Need for therapeutic anticoagulation (except for COVID-related pulmonary thrombosis);
  • Bleeding event related to hemostasis disorders, acute clinically significant bleed, current gastrointestinal ulcer or any organic lesion with high risk for bleeding
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  • Platelet count < 50 G/L;
  • Within 15 days of recent surgery, within 24 hours of spinal or epidural anesthesia;
  • Any prior intracranial hemorrhage, enlarged acute ischemic stroke, known intracranial malformation or neoplasm, acute infectious endocarditis;
  • Severe renal failure (creatinine clearance <30 mL/min);
  • Iodine allergy;
  • Hypersensitivity to heparin or its derivatives including low-molecular-weight heparin;
  • History of type II heparin-induced thrombocytopenia;
  • Chronic oxygen supplementation;
  • Moribund patient or death expected from underlying disease during the current admission;
  • Patient deprived of liberty and persons subject to institutional psychiatric care;
  • Patients under guardianship or curatorship;
  • Participation to another interventional research on anticoagulation.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

France1 site
  • Henri Mondor Hospital

    Créteil, 94000

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About this study

Official title: ANTIcoagulation in Severe COVID-19 Patients: a Multicenter, Parallel-group, Open-label, Randomized Controlled Trial

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a viral respiratory illness caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), may predispose patients to thrombotic disease due to a state of profound inflammation, platelet activation, and endothelial dysfunction leading to respiratory distress and increased mortality. The incidence of macrovascular thrombotic events varies from 10 to 30% in COVID-19 hospitalized patients depending on the type of arterial or vein thrombosis captured and severity of illness . Observational results in patients receiving routine low-dose prophylactic anticoagulation (LD-PA), several institutions have recently released guidance statement to prevent macrovascular thrombotic events with dose escalation anticoagulation. In these recommendations, high-dose prophylactic anticoagulation (HD-PA) and therapeutic anticoagulation (TA) can be employed either empirically or based on the body mass index and increased D-dimer values. No randomized trial has validated this approach, and other recent recommendations challenge this approach. Microvascular thrombotic events are also of major concern in critically ill patients with COVID-19, even in the absence of obvious macrovascular thrombotic events. A large review of autopsy findings in COVID-19-related deaths reported micro thrombi in small pulmonary vessels. More generally, COVID-19-induced endothelitis and coagulopathy across vascular beds of different organs lead to widespread microvascular thrombosis with microangiopathy and occlusion of capillaries. Thus, in severe COVID-19 patients requiring oxygen therapy without initial macrovascular thrombotic event, a HD-PA or a TA could be beneficial by limiting the extension of microvascular thrombosis and the evolution of the lung and multi-organ microcirculatory dysfunction. In a large observational cohort of 2,773 COVID-19 patients, a lower in-hospital mortality in ventilated patients receiving TA as compared to those receiving PA (29.1% vs. 62.7%). Our hypothesis is dual: i) first, that TA and HD-PA strategies mitigate microthrombosis and each limit the progression of COVID-19, including respiratory failure and multi-organ dysfunction, with in fine a decreased mortality and duration of disease, as compared to a low-dose PA; ii) second, that TA outperforms HD-PA in this setting.

Being tested
Tinzaparin, Low dose prophylactic anticoagulation, Tinzaparin, High dose prophylactic anticoagulation, Tinzaparin,Therapeutic anticoagulation
Keywords
COVID-19, Anticoagulation
Medical subject headings
COVID-19

What participants receive

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

  • Tinzaparin, Low dose prophylactic anticoagulationDrug

    Also called LD-PA

    Participants randomized to the LD-PA strategie will receive the low weight molecular heparin (LMWH) tinzaparin, considering its contraindications, recommended dose ranges and monitoring if applicable, as follows: LD-PA : 3500 IU/24h. Depending on the type of tinzaparin pre-filled syringe available in the participating center, the dose of 4000 IU/24h will be allowed in place of 3500 IU/24h.

    If tinzaparin is not punctually available, the use of enoxaparin will be allowed as follows: LD-PA: 4000 IU/24h.

    After day-14, or hospital discharge, or in case of an indication for TA, or of serious adverse event related to anticoagulation, the investigational anticoagulation strategy will be discontinued and anticoagulation treatment will be left at the discretion of attending physicians.

    Recommendations for the management of COVID-19 pneumonia will be followed, including the use of dexamethasone. These recommendations will be subject to modifications based on the new literature data.

  • Tinzaparin, High dose prophylactic anticoagulationDrug

    Also called HD-PA

    Participants randomized to the HD-PA strategie will receive the low weight molecular heparin (LMWH) tinzaparin, considering its contraindications, recommended dose ranges and monitoring if applicable, as follows: HD-PA : 7000 IU/24h.

    If tinzaparin is not punctually available, the use of enoxaparin will be allowed as follows: HD-PA: 4000 IU/12h.

    After day-14, or hospital discharge, or in case of an indication for TA, or of serious adverse event related to anticoagulation, the investigational anticoagulation strategy will be discontinued and anticoagulation treatment will be left at the discretion of attending physicians.

    Recommendations for the management of COVID-19 pneumonia will be followed, including the use of dexamethasone. These recommendations will be subject to modifications based on the new literature data.

  • Tinzaparin,Therapeutic anticoagulationDrug

    Also called TA

    Participants randomized to the TA strategie will receive the low weight molecular heparin (LMWH) tinzaparin, considering its contraindications, recommended dose ranges and monitoring if applicable, as follows: TA : 175 IU/kg/24h.

    If tinzaparin is not punctually available, the use of enoxaparin will be allowed as follows: TA: 100 IU/kg/12h.

    After day-14, or hospital discharge, or in case of an indication for TA, or of serious adverse event related to anticoagulation, the investigational anticoagulation strategy will be discontinued and anticoagulation treatment will be left at the discretion of attending physicians.

    Recommendations for the management of COVID-19 pneumonia will be followed, including the use of dexamethasone. These recommendations will be subject to modifications based on the new literature data.

Study groups in NCT04808882
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Low dose prophylactic anticoagulationExperimentalLD-PA
Receives: Drug: Tinzaparin, Low dose prophylactic anticoagulation
High dose prophylactic anticoagulationExperimentalHD-PA
Receives: Drug: Tinzaparin, High dose prophylactic anticoagulation
Therapeutic anticoagulationExperimentalTA
Receives: Drug: Tinzaparin,Therapeutic anticoagulation

What is being measured

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

  1. All-cause mortality

    Measured: Day-28

  2. Number of days to clinical improvement

    Clinical improvement will be assessed through a seven-category ordinal scale derived from the WHO scale, using the following categories: 1. not hospitalized with resumption of normal activities; 2. not hospitalized, but unable to resume normal activities; 3. hospitalized, not requiring supplemental oxygen; 4. hospitalized, requiring supplemental oxygen; 5. hospitalized, requiring nasal high-flow oxygen therapy, noninvasive mechanical ventilation, or both; 6. hospitalized, requiring ECMO, invasive mechanical ventilation, or both; and 7. death. As all included patients will at least require oxygen supplementation, live discharge from hospital will represent a minimal 2-points decrease in the 7-points scale, thus a clinical improvement.

    Measured: Day-28

Secondary outcomes (19)
  1. Net clinical benefit of anticoagulation assessed by the absence of thrombotic event, major bleeding event, Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia and all-cause death

    Measured: Day-28

  2. All-cause deaths

    Measured: Day-28 and Day-90

  3. Proportion of patients with at least one thrombotic event at Day-28

    Measured: Day-28

  4. Proportion of patients with at least one major bleeding event (MBE) at Day-28

    Measured: Day-28

  5. Proportion of patients with at least one life-threatening bleeding event at Day-28

    Measured: Day-28

  6. Proportion of patients with any bleeding event at Day-28

    Measured: Day-28

  7. Proportion of patients with Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia at Day-28

    Measured: Day-28

  8. Number of days to clinical improvement assessed through a seven-category ordinal scale derived from the WHO scale

    Measured: Day-28

  9. Score on the seven-category ordinal scale derived from the WHO Ordinal scale

    Measured: Day-28

  10. Score on WHO Ordinal Scale

    Measured: Day-28

  11. Number of days alive and free from supplemental oxygen at Day-28

    Measured: Day-28

  12. Proportion of patients needing intubation at Day-28

    Measured: Day-28

  13. Number of days alive and free from invasive mechanical ventilation at Day-28

    Measured: Day-28

  14. Number of days alive and free from vasopressors at Day-28

    Measured: Day-28

  15. Length of intensive care unit stay

    Measured: Day-28

  16. Length of hospital stay

    Measured: Day-28

  17. Quality of life and disability at assessed using a quality of life questionnaire

    Measured: Day-90

  18. D-dimers levels

    Measured: Day-7

  19. Sepsis-Induced Coagulopathy Score (SCS)

    Measured: Day-7

Timeline

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

  1. First posted22 Mar 2021
  2. Study start14 Apr 2021
  3. Primary completion10 Jan 2022
  4. Study completion13 Mar 2022

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 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
The research is a multicenter, parallel group, open-label, randomized controlled superiority trial, aiming at comparing three usual strategies of anticoagulation. The primary hierarchical criterion assessed at Day-28, includes all-cause mortality followed by the time to clinical improvement. The three strategies are LD-PA, HD-PA, and TA, with a 1:1:1 ratio
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
353 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04808882
Sponsor's protocol ID
APHP201624
Other IDs
2020-A03531-38
Acronym
ANTICOVID
Status last verified
Dec 2020
First submitted
8 Mar 2021
Last updated
8 Sep 2022
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No: DATAS ARE OWN BY ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE - HOPITAUX DE PARIS, PLEASE CONTACT SPONSOR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Publications

  • Labbe V, Contou D, Heming N, Megarbane B, Razazi K, Boissier F, Ait-Oufella H, Turpin M, Carreira S, Robert A, Monchi M, Souweine B, Preau S, Doyen D, Vivier E, Zucman N, Dres M, Fejjal M, Noel-Savina E, Bachir M, Jaffal K, Timsit JF, Picos SA, Mariotte E, Martis N, Juguet W, Melica G, Rondeau P, Audureau E, Mekontso Dessap A; ANTICOVID Investigators. Effects of Standard-Dose Prophylactic, High-Dose Prophylactic, and Therapeutic Anticoagulation in Patients With Hypoxemic COVID-19 Pneumonia: The ANTICOVID Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2023 Jun 1;183(6):520-531. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.0456.

    PubMed 36946232
  • Labbe V, Contou D, Heming N, Megarbane B, Ait-Oufella H, Boissier F, Carreira S, Robert A, Vivier E, Fejjal M, Doyen D, Monchi M, Preau S, Noel-Savina E, Souweine B, Zucman N, Picos SA, Dres M, Juguet W, Mariotte E, Timsit JF, Turpin M, Razazi K, Gendreau S, Baloul S, Voiriot G, Fartoukh M, Audureau E, Mekontso Dessap A. Comparison of standard prophylactic, intermediate prophylactic and therapeutic anticoagulation in patients with severe COVID-19: protocol for the ANTICOVID multicentre, parallel-group, open-label, randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2022 Apr 26;12(4):e059383. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059383.

    PubMed 35473740

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Tinzaparin, Low dose prophylactic anticoagulation, Tinzaparin, High dose prophylactic anticoagulation and Tinzaparin,Therapeutic anticoagulation in people with Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia, run by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris at 1 site in France.

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 7 inclusion and 18 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: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 8 Sep 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 France. 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?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

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?

All-cause mortality (time frame: Day-28). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04808882, which also lists 2 linked publications.

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 8 Sep 2022; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 4 Nov 2026.

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