OPtimisation of Antiviral Therapy in Immunocompromised COVID-19 Patients: a Randomized Factorial Controlled Strategy Trial

Last updated: March 26, 2024
Sponsor: ANRS, Emerging Infectious Diseases
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

2

Condition

Covid-19

Treatment

Paxlovid 5 days

Veklury

Paxlovid 10 days

Clinical Study ID

NCT05587894
ANRS 0176s OPTICOV
CT-2022-501408-81-01
  • Ages > 16
  • All Genders

Study Summary

The overall purpose of the trial is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of possible combination antiviral therapy DAA (remdesivir + nirmatrelvir/r)∞ versus the reference monotherapy (nirmatrelvir/r alone) and to assess the efficacy and safety of increasing the nirmatrelvir/r course from 5- to 10 days in immunocompromised patients diagnosed with asymptomatic or mild to moderate COVID-19.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Laboratory confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection by RT-PCR or positive antigenic test
  2. Asymptomatic or mild to moderate COVID-19 (WHO progression scale <5). Patientsreceiving oxygen therapy for reasons other than a pulmonary COVID-19 are eligible)
  3. ≥ 16 years of age;
  4. Immunocompromised as defined by ≥ 1 risk factors for severe COVID-19 as assessed bythe FOPH list (criteria 5: diseases/treatments leading to immune suppression)
  • Severe immunosuppression (e.g., HIV infection with CD4 + T cell count <350 / µl)
  • Neutropenia (<1000 neutrophils / µl) ≥1 week
  • Lymphocytopenia (<200 lymphocytes/µl)
  • Hereditary immunodeficiencies
  • Intake of drugs which suppress the immune system (e.g. glucocorticoids for a longtime [an equivalent dose of prednisone >20 mg/day > 3 months], monoclonalantibodies, cytostatics, biological products, everolimus, mTOR inhibitors etc.)in the last 12 months
  • Active cancer under cytostatics or targeted therapy known to be immunosuppressive (e.g., platinum salts, cyclophosphamide, anthracyclines, taxanes, 5-fluorouracil,gemcitabine, purine inhibitors, proteasome inhibitors) or associated withhematologic toxicity (neutropenia, lymphopenia), for example sunitinib, imatinib,regorafenib
  • Aggressive lymphomas (all types)
  • Acute lymphatic leukemia
  • Acute myeloid leukemia
  • Acute promyelocytic leukemia
  • T prolymphocytic leukemia
  • Primary central nervous system lymphoma
  • Stem cell transplantation
  • Light chain amyloidosis
  • Chronic lymphoid leukemia
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Bone marrow transplant
  • Organ transplant
  • Being on the waiting list for an organ transplant
  1. Willing and able to comply with study requirements and restrictions as described inthe informed consent form (ICF)
  2. Enrolled in or a beneficiary of a Social Security program (State Medical Aid (AME) isnot a Social Security program) or holders of health insurance
  3. Participant's or its legal representative's signature of the informed consent form

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. SARS-CoV-2 PCR ≥30 CT at screening
  2. Hypersensitivity to study drugs (active substance(s) or excipients)
  3. Body weight < 40 kg
  4. AST or ALT > 5 times the upper limit
  5. Cirrhosis Child-Pugh score C
  6. Is taking or is anticipated to require any prohibited therapies*
  7. Participation in another interventional clinical study through Day 28 with aninvestigational compound or device, including COVID-19 therapeutics, where the studyintervention is performed in the 28 days preceding the inclusion and the 10 days afterthe inclusion. Investigators of the different clinical studies should agree onparticipant's inclusion
  8. Presence of any condition for which, in the opinion of the investigator, participationwould not be in participant's best interest or that could prevent, limit, or confoundthe protocol-specified assessments
  9. Having received antiviral treatments against SARS-CoV-2 in the 14 days before theinclusion with exception of those having received one or two doses of nirmatrevir/r inthe 24h preceding the inclusion in the study.
  10. Pregnant or breastfeeding female
  • Study SOPs based on recommendations from the Liverpool COVID-19 interactions,French Society for Pharmacology and Therapeutics and French SpeakingTransplantation society will be provided to guide investigators

Study Design

Total Participants: 256
Treatment Group(s): 3
Primary Treatment: Paxlovid 5 days
Phase: 2
Study Start date:
April 27, 2023
Estimated Completion Date:
May 31, 2025

Study Description

This is a randomized, controlled, factorial, superiority trial to evaluate the viral efficacy of DAA (nirmatrelvir/r) + DAA (remdesivir)∞ versus nirmatrelvir/r alone and of 5 days versus 10 days of nirmatrelvir/r in immunocompromised patients diagnosed with asymptomatic or mild to moderate COVID-19.

The primary objective is to assess whether (i) a combination antiviral therapy of two DAA (nirmatrelvir/r + remdesivir)∞ And/or (ii) an increase in nirmatrelvir/r duration from 5 to 10 days improves viral efficacy by decreasing the SARS-CoV-2 positivity rate by real time RT-PCR (CT<32) in nasopharyngeal swabs at D10.

Patients will be eligible if they are immunocompromised, have confirmed asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection or mild to moderate COVID-19, regardless of symptoms onset, provided that they have no contra-indication to any of the study drugs.

A total of 256 patients will be included in France and Switzerland.

Participants not eligible for randomisation or who refuse to participate to the trial for any reason will be proposed to be included in an exploratory non comparative cohort (maximum 97 participants).

Connect with a study center

  • Pellegrin Hospital

    Bordeaux, 33076
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Saint-André Hospital

    Bordeaux, 33075
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Francois Mitterrand Hospital

    Dijon, 21079
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Croix Rousse Hospital

    Lyon, 69317
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • La Colombière Hospital

    Montpellier, 34295
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Hotel Dieu Hospital

    Nantes, 44093
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Bichat Claude-Bernard Hospital

    Paris, 75877
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Laribosière Hospital

    Paris, 75010
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

    Paris, 75013
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Saint Antoine Hospital

    Paris, 75012
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Saint Louis Hospital

    Paris, 75474
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Robert Debré Hospital

    Reims, 51092
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Purpan Hospital

    Toulouse, 31059
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Tourcoing Hospital

    Tourcoing, 59208
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Basel University Hospital

    Basel, 4031
    Switzerland

    Active - Recruiting

  • University Hospitals of Geneva

    Geneva, 1205
    Switzerland

    Active - Recruiting

  • University Hospital CHUV

    Lausanne, 10-549
    Switzerland

    Site Not Available

  • University Hospital Zurich

    Zürich, 8091
    Switzerland

    Active - Recruiting

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