A randomized placebo-controlled safety and dose-finding study for the use of the IL-6 inhibitor clazakizumab in patients with life-threatening COVID-19 infection
Are you eligible to participate in this study?
You may be eligible for this study if you meet the following criteria:
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Conditions: Covid-19Respiratory Failure
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Age: Between 18 years - 99 years
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Gender: Male or Female
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Other Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects =18 years of age at time of enrollment.
- Subjects who are confirmed COVID-19 disease
- Subjects with respiratory failure manifesting as: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, OR SpO2 <90% on 4L OR increasing Oxygen requirements over 24 hours.
- Subjects who meets 2 or more of the following predictors for severe disease:
- CRP > 35 mg/L
- Ferritin > 500 ng/mL
- D-dimer > 1 mcg/L
- Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio > 4
- LDH > 200 U/L
- Increase in troponin in patient w/out known cardiac disease
- Subjects who have consent designees willing to provide informed consent on behalf of the subjects
- Women of childbearing potential must be willing and able to use at least one highly effective contraceptive method for a period of 5 months following the study drug administration such as:
- Combined hormonal contraception (oral, intravaginal, or transdermal)
- progestogen-only hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation (oral, injectable, implantable)
- intrauterine device (IUD)
- intrauterine hormone-releasing system (IUS)
- vasectomized partner
- bilateral tubal occlusion
- true abstinence
- Men must be willing to use a double-barrier contraception from enrollment until at 5 months after the last dose of study drug, if not abstinent.
You may not be eligible for this study if the following are true:
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- Subjects with evidence of irreversible injury deemed non-survivable even if the pulmonary failure recovers
- Subjects with known active inflammatory bowel disease
- Subjects with known active, untreated diverticulitis
- Subjects with known untreated bacteremia
- Subjects who is pregnant
- Subjects who have known hypersensitivity to the clazakizumab
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