1. Clinical efficacy of different monoclonal antibody regimens among non-hospitalised patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 at high risk for disease progression: a prospective cohort study
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Savoldi, Alessia, Morra, Matteo, De Nardo, Pasquale, Cattelan, Anna Maria, Mirandola, Massimo, Manfrin, Vinicio, Scotton, Piergiorgio, Giordani, Maria Teresa, Brollo, Lucio, Panese, Sandro, Lanzafame, Massimiliano, Scroccaro, Giovanna, Berkell, Matilda, Lippi, Giuseppe, Konnova, Angelina, Smet, Mathias, Malhotra-Kumar, Surbhi, Kumar-Singh, Samir, Tacconelli, Evelina, Canova, Marco, Rigo, Fabio, Coletto, Davide, Serino, Francesco Saverio, Coledan, Ilaria, Danese, Elisa, Peserico, Denise, Gelati, Matteo, Conti, Michela, Fasan, Daniele, Xavier, Basil Britto, Gupta, Akshita, Hotterbeekx, An, De Ambrosis, Paola, and mAb Working Group
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Microbiology (medical) ,COVID-19 Vaccines ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Antibodies, Monoclonal ,General Medicine ,Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized ,Antibodies, Neutralizing ,COVID-19 Drug Treatment ,Treatment Outcome ,Infectious Diseases ,amlanivimab-etesevimab ,Disease Progression ,Humans ,Prospective Studies ,Human medicine ,Mild-to-moderate COVID-19 outpatients ,Monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19 ,casirivimab-imdevimab ,Biology ,SARS-CoV-2 early treatments ,amlanivimab-etesevimab, casirivimab-imdevimab - Abstract
This study aimed to compare the clinical progression of COVID-19 in high-risk outpatients treated with the monoclonal antibodies (mAb) bamlanivimab, bamlanivimab-etesevimab and casirivimab-imdevimab. This is an observational, multi-centre, prospective study conducted from 18 March to 15 July 2021 in eight Italian tertiary-care hospitals including mild-to-moderate COVID-19 outpatients receiving bamlanivimab (700 mg), bamlanivimab-etesevimab (700–1400 mg) or casirivimab-imdevimab (1200–1200 mg). All patients were at high risk of COVID-19 progression according to Italian Medicines Agency definitions. In a patient subgroup, SARS-CoV-2 variant and anti-SARS-CoV-2 serology were analysed at baseline. Factors associated with 28-day all-cause hospitalisation were identified using multivariable multilevel logistic regression (MMLR) and summarised with adjusted odds ratio (aOR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). A total of 635 outpatients received mAb: 161 (25.4%) bamlanivimab, 396 (62.4%) bamlanivimab-etesevimab and 78 (12.2%) casirivimab-imdevimab. Ninety-five (15%) patients received full or partial SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. The B.1.1.7 (Alpha) variant was detected in 99% of patients. Baseline serology showed no significant differences among the three mAb regimen groups. Twenty-eight-day all-cause hospitalisation was 11.3%, with a significantly higher proportion (p 0.001) in the bamlanivimab group (18.6%), compared to the bamlanivimab-etesevimab (10.1%) and casirivimab-imdevimab (2.6%) groups. On MMLR, aORs for 28-day all-cause hospitalisation were significantly lower in patients receiving bamlanivimab-etesevimab (aOR 0.51, 95% CI 0.30–0.88 p 0.015) and casirivimab-imdevimab (aOR 0.14, 95% CI 0.03–0.61, p 0.009) compared to those receiving bamlanivimab. No patients with a history of vaccination were hospitalised. The study suggests differences in clinical outcomes among the first available mAb regimens for treating high-risk COVID-19 outpatients. Randomised trials are needed to compare efficacy of mAb combination regimens in high-risk populations and according to circulating variants.
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- 2022