Efficacy and safety of lopinavir-ritonavir in COVID-19 : A systematic review of randomized controlled trials

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BACKGROUND: Lopinavir-ritonavir is a repurposed drug for coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). In this study, a pooled effect of lopinavir-ritonavir on mortality, virological cure, radiological improvement and safety profile in COVID-19 patients has been evaluated.

METHODS: The databases were searched for comparative randomized controlled studies evaluating the efficacy and/or safety of lopinavir-ritonavir in COVID-19 patients. The mortality outcome was pooled as a risk difference (RD) with 95% CI. The virological cure, radiological improvement and adverse events were pooled as risk ratio (RR) with 95% CI. All outcomes were pooled using the Mantle-Hanzle method random effect model. The heterogeneity was assessed using the I2 test.

RESULTS: Out of 82 full text assessed, seven studies were included in the analysis. The included studies had five different control interventions: supportive care (n=4), umifenovir (arbidol) (n=2), navaferon (recombinant anti-tumour and anti-virus protein) (n=1), lopinavir-ritonavir+novaferon (n=1) and lopinavir-ritonavir+interferon beta 1b+ribavirin (n=1). Lopinavir-ritonavir group did not show significant difference in mortality [RD: 0.00 (95% CI: -0.01, 0.02), I2=0], virological cure [RR: 1.06 (95% CI: 0.85, 1.31), I2=0%], radiological improvement [RR: 0.81 (95% CI: 0.62, 1.05)] and adverse events [RR: 2.59 (95% CI: 0.17, 38.90), I2=75%] than supportive care. Similarly, no difference was observed for any efficacy outcomes between lopinavir-ritonavir and other control interventions. We observed significantly high risk of adverse events with lopinavir-ritonavir as compared to umifenovir [RR: 2.96 (95% CI: 1.42-6.18); I2=0%].

CONCLUSION: There is no benefit of the addition of lopinavir-ritonavir to the standard care in COVID-19 patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Journal of infection and public health - 14(2021), 6 vom: 01. Juni, Seite 740-748

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Patel, Tejas K [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Parvati B [VerfasserIn]
Barvaliya, Manish [VerfasserIn]
Saurabh, Manoj Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Bhalla, Hira Lal [VerfasserIn]
Khosla, Prem Parkash [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2494G1JF75
Antiviral Agents
COVID-19
Journal Article
Lopinavir
Meta-analysis
O3J8G9O825
Ritonavir
Safety
Systematic Review
Virological cure

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Date Completed 08.06.2021

Date Revised 11.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jiph.2021.03.015

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM325695571