In Situ Thrombolysis With tPA and Inflow Perfusion Analysis in Patient With Severe Covid-19 Infection

In Situ Thrombolysis With tPA and Inflow Lung Perfusion Analysis in Patient With Severe Covid-19 Infection

To estimate the pulmonary response microvascular thrombosis in critical patients due to SARS-Cov-2., at the Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", a 15 patients compassionate treatment study was authorized and approved by the ethics and research committee DI-222-2020. Because of the severity of the illness the legal representative sign informed consent in all the patients for performing in-situ thrombolysis with alteplase selectively by catheter in each main pulmonary artery, under fluoroscopic guidance and acquiring images with the iFlow software to assess immediate and post-procedure response.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: COVID-19
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: tPA

Detailed Description

The main clinical characteristic of patients with severe SARS-Cov-2 infection is hypoxemic respiratory failure that requires Mechanical Ventilation. The Acute Respiratory Syndrome model has been proposed as the cause of this significant deterioration in lung function and all management has focused on ventilatory support management. As for ventilatory failure, it has been attributed to the presence of severe pulmonary inflammation evolving to fibrosis, which is the clinical characteristic of patients with Primary Respiratory Distress Syndrome (which would be the case of this as it is considered a respiratory virus).

Several autopsy studies demonstrated microthrombi in pulmonary circulation. The major limitation of these investigations is that the autopsy provided static information. Some of these alterations could be secondary to the disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) observed as the standard route to the multisystem organ failure exhibited in critically ill patients.

With this comes the contradictory results of high doses of anticoagulants in the survival of these patients. This intermediate to high doses can reduce organ support treatments in moderate cases, however, in critically ill patients the benefit of high dose of anticoagulants, once again failed to produce benefit on survival. Different publication on biopsies made in these patients have report the presence of thrombosis in the microcirculation and finally recently has been published the demonstration by direct examination with Citoscam, the presence of this thrombosis of the microcirculation in vivo in 11 of 13 test (85% of the sample). Studies performed with viscoelastic coagulation tests present evidence of three key alterations in coagulation

1. EXTEM and INTEM Hypercoagulable states represented by a maximum amplitude (A5, A10 and MCF) greater than 70mm, short clot formation time.
2. Hyperfibrinogenemia A5 A10 MCF in FIBTEM greater than 30mm
3. Absence of fibrinolytic activity (ML% Lys 30 and Lys 60) 100% Taking this into account plus the large number of publications regarding the thrombotic phenomenon of the patient with COVID-19, this could be explained by the presence of a phenomenon of ventilation perfusion (V / Q) that is observed in patients with Massive Pulmonary Thromboembolism (PE) which is known as the infinite relationship, that is, the lung is with normal aeration, but no perfusion, there is no adequate gas exchange, with presence of hypoxia, increment of death space and ultimately obstructive shock.

In patients with COVID-19, this phenomenon is observed in patients with absence of massive or submassive PE that explains this phenomenon.

The high mortality of critically ill patients with SARS-Cov-2 infection, the presence of thrombosis of the microcirculation and the lack of efficacy of anticoagulation in some cases suggests that this phenomenon could be the cause of the behavior between perfusion ventilation observed in SARS-Cov-2 patients.

For these reasons, a probe of concept research was developed to find out if pulmonary perfusion alteration by microthrombosis and secondary V / Q abnormalities could be linked to the pathophysiology of the patient with severe SARS-Cov-2 infection.

To estimate the pulmonary response microvascular thrombosis in critical patients due to SARS-Cov-2., at the Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga", a 15 patients compassionate treatment study was authorized and approved by the ethics and research committee DI-222-2020. Because of the severity of the illness the legal representative sign informed consent in all the patients for performing in-situ thrombolysis with alteplase selectively by catheter in each main pulmonary artery, under fluoroscopic guidance and acquiring images with the iFlow software to assess immediate and post-procedure response.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 15
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Mexico
  • Mexico City, Mexico, 06720
    • Hospital General de México Dr Eduardo Liceaga

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 80 years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:Lung criteria:

Patients with severe Covid 19 nfection, from 18 to 75 years old, Invasive Mechanical Ventilation (IMV) Pao2 / fio2 less than 150 Non réponse to prone position Coagulation criteria ISTH score >5, D-dimer greater than 1200, Viscoelastic testing EXTEM A5 >65 FIBTEM > 30 and EXTEM ML<8%

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Exclusion Criteria:

Ischemic CVD or presence of abnormal neurological examination. Active bleeding. Acute Myocardial Infarction within the previous three weeks or cardiac arrest during hospitalization.

cardiac tamponade. endocarditis. uncontrolled hypertension SBP> 185mmhg or DBP> 110. history of stage 4 cancer. history of brain tumor. Arterious venous malformation ruptured aneurysm. major surgery in the previous 2 weeks major trauma in the previous 2 weeks. pregnancy. fibrinogen less than 200 blood dyscrasias thrombocytopenia less than 30,000

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Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: DIAGNOSTIC
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: experimental arm; In situ thrombolysis with tPA	Drug: tPA; Selectively catheter thrombolysis with alteplase in each main pulmonary; Other Names: in situ thrombolysis

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Changes in lung perfusion	changes in contrast distribution comparing pre and post-thrombolysis using Iflow parameters that include ROI, peak flow and Time	1 hour

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Coagulation	changes in D Dimer, standard coagulation test and fibrinogen	48 hours
Oxygenation Index	changes in PaO2/FiO2 index pre and post-thrombolysis	48 hours

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Grupo Mexicano para el Estudio de la Medicina Intensiva
• Investigators: Study Director: Jose Damian Carrillo Ruiz, PhD, Hospital General de México Dr. Eduardo Liceaga

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Livingston E, Bucher K. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy. JAMA. 2020 Apr 14;323(14):1335. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.4344. No abstract available.
• Greene R. Pulmonary vascular obstruction in the adult respiratory distress syndrome. J Thorac Imaging. 1986 Jul;1(3):31-8. doi: 10.1097/00005382-198607000-00006.
• Yao XH, Li TY, He ZC, Ping YF, Liu HW, Yu SC, Mou HM, Wang LH, Zhang HR, Fu WJ, Luo T, Liu F, Guo QN, Chen C, Xiao HL, Guo HT, Lin S, Xiang DF, Shi Y, Pan GQ, Li QR, Huang X, Cui Y, Liu XZ, Tang W, Pan PF, Huang XQ, Ding YQ, Bian XW. [A pathological report of three COVID-19 cases by minimal invasive autopsies]. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi. 2020 May 8;49(5):411-417. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112151-20200312-00193. Chinese.
• Vesconi S, Rossi GP, Pesenti A, Fumagalli R, Gattinoni L. Pulmonary microthrombosis in severe adult respiratory distress syndrome. Crit Care Med. 1988 Feb;16(2):111-3. doi: 10.1097/00003246-198802000-00002.
• Ospina-Tascon GA, Bautista DF, Madrinan HJ, Valencia JD, Bermudez WF, Quinones E, Calderon-Tapia LE, Hernandez G, Bruhn A, De Backer D. Microcirculatory dysfunction and dead-space ventilation in early ARDS: a hypothesis-generating observational study. Ann Intensive Care. 2020 Mar 24;10(1):35. doi: 10.1186/s13613-020-00651-1.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): December 25, 2020
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): March 30, 2021
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): March 30, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 13, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 13, 2021
• First Posted (ACTUAL): June 15, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): June 21, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 16, 2021
• Last Verified: June 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Covid-19; Thrombosis; Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Virus Diseases; Infections; Respiratory Tract Infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Lung Diseases; COVID-19
• Other Study ID Numbers: DI-222-2020

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: IPD will be shared by petition.
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: 3 months up to 5 years after completion
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: proposal should be directed to gmemiinv@gmails.com, to gain access, requestor will need to sign a data access agreement
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL; SAP; ICF; CSR

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No