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It's only one patient so you know this improvement could be attributed to anything...
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Humanigen Announces COVID-19 Case Report Demonstrating Rapid Resolution and Discharge after Single IND Emergency Use Authorization of Lenzilumab(TM)

ACCESSWIRE•October 2, 2020
- Case report demonstrated rapid resolution of hypoxemia and mobility and potential benefit of lenzilumab beyond the initial acute hyper-inflammatory window
- After 13 weeks of hospitalization, administration of lenzilumab resulted in rapid improvement in oxygenation and subsequent discharge
BURLINGAME, CA / ACCESSWIRE / October 2, 2020 /
Humanigen, Inc.,
(NASDAQ:HGEN)("Humanigen"), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on preventing and treating an immune hyper-response called ‘cytokine storm,' today announced that a patient case report on the use of lenzilumab™ in critical COVID-19 was published online at OSF Preprints. The case report, titled "COVID-19 associated chronic ARDS successfully treated with lenzilumab" is available at:
https://osf.io/xusr9/.
The published case describes a
77-year-old Caucasian male patient with a past medical history of
type II diabetes, coronary artery disease with coronary artery bypass graft, systolic heart failure, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with emphysema and obstructive sleep apnea. The patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and was
admitted to the ICU in March 2020 for COVID-19 and put on respiratory isolation. MARCH!!!
The patient was treated with steroids, broad spectrum antibiotics for community acquired pneumonia and bronchodilators for possible COPD exacerbation and
hydroxychloroquine with zinc.
The patient continued to deteriorate for the next 12 weeks with an increase in oxygen demand from continuous low-flow oxygen to high-flow and eventually intermittent bilevel positive airway pressure (BIPAP) and
developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) during that time.<-- serious
At week 13 of hospitalization and multiple unsuccessful attempts at oxygen weaning, an emergency single use IND for lenzilumab, Humanigen's Humaneered®anti-human granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) monoclonal antibody drug candidate, was approved by the FDA and administered to the patient.
Seven days following the administration of lenzilumab, the patient's oxygen decreased from high-flow to low-flow nasal cannula and the patient was able to walk outside of his hospital room with physical therapy. Sixteen days post-treatment with lenzilumab, the patient was discharged from the hospital on home oxygen.
16 days later he walks out!
Lenzilumab is being evaluated in an ongoing Phase 3 trial....