A two-arm, randomized, controlled, multi-centric, open-label phase-2 study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Itolizumab in moderate to severe ARDS patients due to COVID-19

Objective: Efficacy and safety of Itolizumab, an immunomodulatory mAb, in treating moderate-to-severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to cytokine release in COVID-19 patients was evaluated in a multi-centric, open-label, two-arm, controlled, randomized, phase-2 study.Methods: Patients were randomized (2:1) to Arm-A (best supportive care [BSC]+Itolizumab) and Arm-B (BSC). Primary outcome of interest was reduction in mortality 30-days after enrollment.Results: Thirty-six patients were screened, five treated as first-dose-sentinels and rest randomized, while four patients were screen-failures. Two patients in Arm-A discontinued prior to receiving one complete infusion and were replaced. At end of 1-month, there were three deaths in Arm-B, and none in Arm-A (p = 0.0296; 95% CI = -0.3 [-0.61, -0.08]). At end of study, more patients in Arm-A had improved SpO2 without increasing FiO2 (p = 0.0296), improved PaO2 (p = 0.0296), and reduction in IL-6 (43 vs 212 pg/ml; p = 0.0296) and tumor necrotic factor-α (9 vs 39 pg/ml; p = 0.0253) levels. Transient lymphopenia (Arm-A: 11 patients) and infusion reactions (7 patients) were commonly reported treatment-related safety events.Conclusion: Itolizumab is a promising, safe and effective immunomodulatory therapy for treatment of ARDS due to cytokine release in COVID-19 patients, with survival and recovery-benefit.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

Expert opinion on biological therapy - 21(2021), 5 vom: 01. Mai, Seite 675-686

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kumar, Suresh [VerfasserIn]
De Souza, Rosemarie [VerfasserIn]
Nadkar, Milind [VerfasserIn]
Guleria, Randeep [VerfasserIn]
Trikha, Anjan [VerfasserIn]
Joshi, Shashank R [VerfasserIn]
Loganathan, Subramanian [VerfasserIn]
Vaidyanathan, Sivakumar [VerfasserIn]
Marwah, Ashwani [VerfasserIn]
Athalye, Sandeep N [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute respiratory distress syndrome
Anti-CD6
Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
COVID-19
Clinical Trial, Phase II
Coronavirus
Cytokine release syndrome
Immune hyperactivation
Immunologic Factors
Immunotherapy
Itolizumab
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Randomized Controlled Trial
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Date Completed 17.05.2021

Date Revised 11.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/14712598.2021.1905794

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM323909892