Effectiveness of Colchicine Among Patients With COVID-19 Infection
Effectiveness of Colchicine Among Patients With COVID-19 Infection
In November 2019, there were a lot of cases of an acute respiratory illness (then named at February 11th as COVID_19) which first case was reported in Wuhan, China,The SARS COV-2 had been spread in a fast way to involve whole world, As it's obvious that Colchicine is a drug that is most commonly and widely used to treat and prevent acute attacks of Gout, other crystal induced arthropathy,colchicine has important role in inhibiting activation of NLRP3 inflammasome these lead to decrease cytokine production , aim of study To evaluate whether colchicine is effective in the treatment of COVID-19 cases. And to measure the effectiveness of colchicine in alleviating and controlling pulmonary and extra pulmonary complications of COVID-19
this is an open label, randomize control clinical trial ,the participant will be randomly assign in to two groups ( Group A and Group B), colchicine (group A) will treat with colchicine tablet alone or add to their Current treatment,Colchicine 0.5 mg twice daily (reduce to 0.5 mg/day, in patients with low body weight or develop side effects like gastrointestinal symptoms ),For 14 days or until symptoms subsides, while the control group will treat according to usual treatment guideline in COVID-19.
Inclusion Criteria:
1.patients diagnosed clinically or by RT-PCR in nasopharyngeal swab specimens and/ or lung involvement confirm by computed tomography scan compatible with COVID-19patients 2.Age between 18 year and 70 years, 3.body weight > 50 kg, 4.with written informed consent from patients or relatives.
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Exclusion Criteria 1 sensitivity to any medications of regimens, 2.e GFR less than 30. 3.pregnancy. 4.malignancy . 5.Participating in another clinical study and refusing to participate in the study at a later date or later, and they are already taking colchicine for other diseases .
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