Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common, preventable, and treatable disease, that causes obstructed airflow from the lungs that causes persistent obstructive airflow limitation. Acute exacerbation, especially frequent exacerbation, is associated with an increased risk of death in COPD patients. The most common causes of acute attacks are viral and bacterial infections. This study will assess the efficacy and safety of sitafloxacin, a quinolone antibacterial drug, in participants with AECOPD.
Clinical evidence suggests that AECOPD may be an important factor in the cause of death in patients with COPD. AECOPD typically presents with increased dyspnea, cough, and sputum volume, or purulent changes in sputum. The most common factors of AECOPD are viral and bacterial infections. Anti-infection agents have shown to be effective in patients with infectious AECOPD. This study will assess the anti-bacterial drug sitafloxacin in participants with AECOPD. Clinical efficacy is the primary objective of the study. Microbiological validity, symptom relief, magnitude of change in symptom score and inflammatory biomarker, and recurrence rate and safety will also be assessed.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
140
Oral administration, 50 mg tablets
Oral administration, 400 mg tablets
Peking University Shougang Hospital
Beijing, China
The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University
Changsha, China
The Sixth People's Hospital of Chengdu
Chengdu, China
West China Hospital Sichuan University
Chengdu, China
The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University
Dalian, China
Fuyang People's Hospital
Fuyang, China
Nanfang Hospital Southern Medical University
Guangzhou, China
Qilu Hospital of Shandong University
Jinan, China
Gaozhou People's Hospital
Maoming, China
Huadong Hospital Affiliated To Fudan University
Shanghai, China
...and 8 more locations
Number of Participants Achieving Clinical Efficacy in Participants With Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Clinical efficacy is divided into clinical cure and clinical ineffective. Clinical cure is defined as the three main symptoms of AECOPD (worsening dyspnea, increased sputum volume and sputum purulence) that disappear or return to the baseline level of stable phase at the end of treatment/discontinuation and no additional systemic antibacterial therapy is required for the target indication. Clinical ineffective is defined as the three main symptoms of AECOPD (worsening dyspnea, increased sputum volume and sputum purulence) that persist or incompletely disappear (do not return to the baseline level of stable phase).
Time frame: End of treatment (approximately Day 10 post-dose)
Number of Participants Achieving Clinical Efficacy in Participants With Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Clinical efficacy is divided into clinical cure and clinical ineffective. Clinical cure is defined as the three main symptoms of AECOPD (worsening dyspnea, increased sputum volume and sputum purulence) that disappear or return to the baseline level of stable phase at the end of treatment/discontinuation and no additional systemic antibacterial therapy is required for the target indication. Clinical ineffective is defined as the three main symptoms of AECOPD (worsening dyspnea, increased sputum volume and sputum purulence) that persist or incompletely disappear (do not return to the baseline level of stable phase).
Time frame: 1 month post-dose
Number of Participants Achieving Microbiological Efficacy in Participants With Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Microbiological efficacy is determined by bacterial clearance: Clearance is defined as specimens from the original infection site after treatment do not culture pathogenic bacteria from the original infection.
Time frame: End of treatment (approximately Day 10 post-dose)
Number of Days With Symptom Relief in Participants With Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
The number of days with symptom relief of the three main symptoms of AECOPD (worsening dyspnea, increased sputum volume and sputum purulence) will be assessed.
Time frame: From the start of treatment up to relief of three main symptoms of AECOPD (worsening dyspnea, increased sputum volume and sputum purulence), up to 1 month post-dose
Change from Baseline in Each Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Symptom Score in Participants With Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease symptom scores include dyspnea (ranging from 0 \[Dyspnea only with strenuous activity\] to 4 \[Unable to leave home due to severe respiratory distress, or dyspnea when wearing and undressing\]), sputum volume (ranging from 0 \[no sputum\] to 3 \[severe\]), sputum purulence (ranging from 0 \[myxoid sample\] to 3 \[severe purulent\]), cough score (ranging from 0 \[no cough\] to 3 \[severe cough\]), fever (ranging from 0 \[≤37.0°C\] to 3 \[\>38.0°C\], and COPD Assessment Test (CAT) (where questions 1-8, range from a score of 0 \[no impact\] to 5 \[severely impacted\]. For all assessments, higher scores indicate worse outcome.
Time frame: End of treatment (approximately Day 10 post-dose)
Change from Baseline in Inflammatory Biomarker C-reactive Protein in Participants With Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Time frame: End of treatment (approximately Day 10 post-dose)
Recurrence Rate of Participants With Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Recurrence rate is defined as when the clinical outcome of the participant at the end/discontinuation of treatment is determined to be clinically cured, but AECOPD occurs again within 20 days after drug withdrawal due to incomplete anti-infective treatment, the participant develops one or more of the three main symptoms of worsening dyspnea, increased phlegm production, and sputum production, and also has relevant signs of AECOPD, with repeated blood routine, C-reactive protein and other inflammatory indicators, and needs to receive systemic antibacterial drug treatment again, and the pathogenic bacteria belonged to the same strain and serotype as the bacteria originally infected.
Time frame: End of treatment (approximately Day 10 post-dose) up to 1 month post-dose
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