Efficacy and Safety of Sarilumab in Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 : A Randomized Clinical Trial

© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America..

BACKGROUND: Open-label platform trials and a prospective meta-analysis suggest efficacy of anti-interleukin (IL)-6R therapies in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) receiving corticosteroids. This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of sarilumab, an anti-IL-6R monoclonal antibody, in the treatment of hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

METHODS: In this adaptive, phase 2/3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, adults hospitalized with COVID-19 received intravenous sarilumab 400 mg or placebo. The phase 3 primary analysis population included patients with critical COVID-19 receiving mechanical ventilation (MV). The primary outcome was proportion of patients with ≥1-point improvement in clinical status from baseline to day 22.

RESULTS: There were 457 and 1365 patients randomized and treated in phases 2 and 3, respectively. In phase 3, patients with critical COVID-19 receiving MV (n = 298; 28.2% on corticosteroids), the proportion with ≥1-point improvement in clinical status (alive, not receiving MV) at day 22 was 43.2% for sarilumab and 35.5% for placebo (risk difference, +7.5%; 95% confidence interval [CI], -7.4 to 21.3; P =.3261), a relative risk improvement of 21.7%. In post hoc analyses pooling phase 2 and 3 critical patients receiving MV, the hazard ratio for death for sarilumab vs placebo was 0.76 (95% CI, .51 to 1.13) overall and 0.49 (95% CI, .25 to .94) in patients receiving corticosteroids at baseline.

CONCLUSIONS: This study did not establish the efficacy of sarilumab in hospitalized patients with severe/critical COVID-19. Post hoc analyses were consistent with other studies that found a benefit of sarilumab in patients receiving corticosteroids.

CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRATION: NCT04315298.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:75

Enthalten in:

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 75(2022), 1 vom: 24. Aug., Seite e380-e388

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sivapalasingam, Sumathi [VerfasserIn]
Lederer, David J [VerfasserIn]
Bhore, Rafia [VerfasserIn]
Hajizadeh, Negin [VerfasserIn]
Criner, Gerard [VerfasserIn]
Hosain, Romana [VerfasserIn]
Mahmood, Adnan [VerfasserIn]
Giannelou, Angeliki [VerfasserIn]
Somersan-Karakaya, Selin [VerfasserIn]
O'Brien, Meagan P [VerfasserIn]
Boyapati, Anita [VerfasserIn]
Parrino, Janie [VerfasserIn]
Musser, Bret J [VerfasserIn]
Labriola-Tompkins, Emily [VerfasserIn]
Ramesh, Divya [VerfasserIn]
Purcell, Lisa A [VerfasserIn]
Gulabani, Daya [VerfasserIn]
Kampman, Wendy [VerfasserIn]
Waldron, Alpana [VerfasserIn]
Ng Gong, Michelle [VerfasserIn]
Saggar, Suraj [VerfasserIn]
Sperber, Steven J [VerfasserIn]
Menon, Vidya [VerfasserIn]
Stein, David K [VerfasserIn]
Sobieszczyk, Magdalena E [VerfasserIn]
Park, William [VerfasserIn]
Aberg, Judith A [VerfasserIn]
Brown, Samuel M [VerfasserIn]
Kosmicki, Jack A [VerfasserIn]
Horowitz, Julie E [VerfasserIn]
Ferreira, Manuel A [VerfasserIn]
Baras, Aris [VerfasserIn]
Kowal, Bari [VerfasserIn]
Thomas DiCioccio, A [VerfasserIn]
Akinlade, Bolanle [VerfasserIn]
Nivens, Michael C [VerfasserIn]
Braunstein, Ned [VerfasserIn]
Herman, Gary A [VerfasserIn]
Yancopoulos, George D [VerfasserIn]
Weinreich, David M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
COVID-19
Hospitalized
Interleukin-6 receptor
Journal Article
Monoclonal antibodies
NU90V55F8I
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Sarilumab

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 29.08.2022

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04315298

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/cid/ciac153

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM337507511