AntiThrombotic Therapy to Ameliorate Clinical Complications in Community Acquired Pneumonia
University of Manitoba
Summary
This is an international, open-label, stratified randomized controlled trial with Bayesian adaptive stopping rules to compare the effects of therapeutic-dose heparin vs. usual care pharmacological thromboprophylaxis on outcomes in patients admitted to hospital with community acquired pneumonia (CAP).
Description
The global incidence of hospitalization due to CAP is high and associated with substantive morbidity and mortality. Thrombotic complications - including venous, arterial, and possibly microvascular - occur commonly in hospitalized patients across many etiologies of CAP. Poor outcomes may be mediated by both inflammatory and thrombotic processes leading to respiratory, cardiac, and other end organ dysfunction. There are currently no established therapies that modify the potentially maladaptive immunothrombosis pathway in CAP. Therapeutic-dose anticoagulation with heparin reduces disease progre…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients ≥18 years of age 2. Admitted to hospital for a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of CAP defined by: 1. Radiographic evidence of new or worsening infiltrate 2. One or more of the following signs and/or symptoms of lower respiratory tract infection i. New or increased cough or sputum production ii. Fever of \> 37.8C or temperature \< 36C iii. WBC \> 11 x 109/L or \< 4 x 109/L c. The primary diagnosis is believed to be CAP as per the attending physician 3. Requires supplemental oxygen to treat hypoxemia (or requires an increased level of supplemental oxy…
Interventions
- DrugHeparin
Preference is for LMWH given ease of administration and possibility of a more favorable safety profile, if no contraindication is present. Enoxaparin, dalteparin, or tinzaparin are acceptable LMWHs to be used for patients in the investigational arm and dose should be based on measured or estimated weight of the patient. Alternatively, intravenous UFH may be used and may be preferred in the presence of significant renal compromise. Intravenous UFH is typically dosed according to total body weight and pragmatically adjusted according to local institutional policy to achieve an activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) of 1.5-2.5x the reference value, or a corresponding UFH anti-Xa level. If UFH is used, the availability of a local site policy that specifies an aPTT target in this range or a corresponding anti-Xa value is a requirement.
Locations (64)
- University of ChicagoChicago, Illinois
- Ochsner ClinicJefferson, Louisiana
- Maine Medical CentrePortland, Maine
- Henry Ford Health SystemDearborn, Michigan
- Cooper University Health CareCamden, New Jersey
- Medical College of WisconsinMilwaukee, Wisconsin