Results of the CAPSID randomized trial for high-dose convalescent plasma in patients with severe COVID-19
et al., Journal of Clinical Investigation, doi:10.1172/JCI152264, CAPSID, NCT04433910 (history)
, Results of the CAPSID randomized trial for high-dose convalescent plasma in patients with severe COVID-19, Journal of Clinical Investigation, doi:10.1172/JCI152264, CAPSID, NCT04433910
RCT 105 hospitalized patients in Germany, 53 treated with convalescent plasma, showing no significant difference in mortality or the primary composite outcome of survival and no longer fulfilling criteria for severe COVID-19 on day 21.
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risk of death, 36.5% lower, RR 0.63, p = 0.19, treatment 11 of 53 (20.8%), control 17 of 52 (32.7%), NNT 8.4, day 60.
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risk of death, 14.2% lower, RR 0.86, p = 0.79, treatment 7 of 53 (13.2%), control 8 of 52 (15.4%), NNT 46, day 21.
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risk of no recovery, 15.9% lower, RR 0.84, p = 0.32, treatment 30 of 53 (56.6%), control 35 of 52 (67.3%), NNT 9.3, composite outcome of survival and no longer fulfilling criteria for severe COVID-19, day 21, primary outcome.
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Körper et al., 15 Oct 2021, Randomized Controlled Trial, Germany, peer-reviewed, median age 60.0, 27 authors, trial NCT04433910 (history) (CAPSID).
Abstract: CLINICAL MEDICINE
The Journal of Clinical Investigation
Results of the CAPSID randomized trial for high-dose
convalescent plasma in patients with severe COVID-19
Sixten Körper,1 Manfred Weiss,2 Daniel Zickler,3 Thomas Wiesmann,4 Kai Zacharowski,5 Victor M. Corman,6 Beate Grüner,7
Lucas Ernst,3 Peter Spieth,8 Philipp M. Lepper,9 Martin Bentz,10 Sebastian Zinn,5 Gregor Paul,11 Johannes Kalbhenn,12
Matthias M. Dollinger,13 Peter Rosenberger,14 Thomas Kirschning,15 Thomas Thiele,16 Thomas Appl,1 Benjamin Mayer,17
Michael Schmidt,18 Christian Drosten,6 Hinnerk Wulf,4 Jan Matthias Kruse,3 Bettina Jungwirth,2 Erhard Seifried,18 and
Hubert Schrezenmeier1 for the CAPSID Clinical Trial Group19
Institute for Clinical Transfusion Medicine and Immunogenetics Ulm, German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Baden-Württemberg–Hessen and University Hospital Ulm, and Institute of Transfusion
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Medicine, and 2Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. 3Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité –
Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany. 4Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care
Medicine, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany. 5Clinic of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany. 6Institute of Virology,
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health and German Centre for Infection Research, Berlin, Germany.
Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital and Medical Center Ulm, Ulm, Germany. 8Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, Technische
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Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany. 9Department of Internal Medicine V – Pneumology, Allergology, Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany. 10Department of
Internal Medicine III, Hospital of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany. 11Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Pneumology and Infectious Diseases, Klinikum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. 12Department
of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 13Medical Clinic I, Klinikum Landshut, Landshut, Germany.
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. 15Department of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine, University of
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Heidelberg, University Medical Centre Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany. 16Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany. 17Institute of Epidemiology
and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. 18Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology, German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Baden-Württemberg–Hessen, Frankfurt,
Germany. 19All members of the CAPSID Clinical Trial Group are listed in Supplemental Acknowledgments (supplemental material available online with this article; https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI152264DS1).
BACKGROUND. COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) has been considered a treatment option for COVID-19. This trial assessed
the efficacy of a neutralizing antibody containing high-dose CCP in hospitalized adults with COVID-19..
Late treatment
is less effective
is less effective
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