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Filter by:The present study will be conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of AMG531 and to determine the recommended initial dose of AMG531 on the basis of its efficacy and safety when it is administered subcutaneously (SC) to the Aplastic Anemia (AA) patients with immunosuppressive-therapy refractory thrombocytopenia and also to assess the pharmacokinetics of this product. Its efficacy and safety during the extension period beyond one year will also be evaluated.
Delayed anaemia has been reported in European travellers with malaria cured by artesunate. Although no deaths related to this delayed anaemia have been reported so far, blood transfusion has been necessary in some affected patients. Recent observations suggest that this episodes of anaemia also occurs in endemic countries. The aim of this trial is to assess the incidence of late onset anaemia after treatment with intravenous artesunate compared to intravenous quinine, to identify patients at risk and to clarify the causes of this delayed anaemia.
Cardiac failure is the major cause of death in patients with thalassemia and chronic blood transfusion-related iron overload. The treatment of thalassemia has been revolutionized over the past decade with the implementation of cardiac MRI based assessment of iron overload. This has enabled detection of cardiac iron overload prior to symptomatic heart failure and now allows for timely therapy which has resulted in a substantial decrease in mortality. However, currently implemented MR imaging techniques assess for iron content only and not for iron related diffuse fibrosis which play a role in iron related heart failure. Histopathologic studies indicate that patients with iron overload have diffuse interstitial fibrosis. Quantitative MR techniques have shown that patients with various cardiomyopathies demonstrate diffuse myocardial fibrosis and that these changes correlate with changes in cardiac function. The investigators propose that quantitative cardiac MRI for assessment of diffuse myocardial fibrosis can further improve our ability to detect early damage to the myocardium and prevent morbidity and mortality from cardiac iron overload. Detection of fibrosis in patients with thalassemia may allow for earlier identification of cardiomyopathy when compared to other techniques in clinical use including T2* analysis. Identification of fibrosis could affect patient management as it would allow for tailoring of iron chelation therapy and may lead to better understanding of the disease processes contributing to heart failure and arrhythmia in these patients.
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the treatment response of Injectafer vs. oral iron to baseline hepcidin levels to determine if any of these select IBD or Gastric Bypass patients may demonstrate to be inappropriate for oral iron therapy.
Evaluate the effect of iron supplementation using oral routes in comparison with total dose infusion of low molecular weight iron dextran in iron deficiency anemia during pregnancy.
The study on dairy value chains that will be conducted in Northern Senegal tests whether a health-related product (micro-fortified yogurt) targeted to children can be provided through the logistics of an existing value chain, and whether in return this can be leveraged to enhance the reliability of producers supply within this value chain. This study is conducted with a local milk factory, a recently established social enterprise, striving to produce dairy products with the milk collected from several hundred semi-nomadic small-scale producers in northern Senegal. This study tests: (i) whether the logistic created to collect milk in a remote area can be leveraged to deliver fortified yogurts to infants within its suppliers households; (ii) whether such products effectively help improve the nutritional status (anemia) of these children; and (iii) whether these health services encourage suppliers (and in particular women) to increase their milk delivery to the milk factory.
Dialysis patients regularly suffer from anemia which may be caused by various contributing factors, alone or in combination, including blood loss, low erythropoietin and iron sequestration. In most patients, the anemia is responsive to treatment with erythropoietin or other erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESA) alone or in combination with intravenous (i.v.) iron. In about 10% of patients however, the anaemia does not respond appropriately to this standard treatment and high to very high doses of ESA and i.v. iron are used to maintain acceptable hemoglobin concentrations. In these patients, hepcidin was identified as a causative factor leading to anemia of chronic disease with functional iron deficiency and ESA-hyporesponsiveness. The Spiegelmer lexaptepid pegol (NOX-H94) offers a hepcidin-specific approach to the treatment of anemia of chronic disease. The safety and the activity of lexaptepid pegol are supported by data from healthy subjects and patients with multiple myeloma or lymphoma. The present study in dialysis patients with functional iron deficiency and ESA-hyporesponsiveness is conducted to demonstrate the safety of lexaptepid pegol in this population, to investigate its pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) profiles and its efficacy in increasing haemoglobin (Hb) in dialysis patients.
Objective: To gather safety and efficacy BioRBC data from adult subjects who previously developed transient BioRBC antibody responses by redosing them and observing for adverse clinical or laboratory (i.e., a positive BioRBC antibody titer) outcomes to determine if RBC kinetic study results differ from the previous study. Hypothesis: BioRBC survival studies performed in adult subjects who previously developed a transient BioRBC antibody response will: 1) be associated with no adverse clinical or laboratory events; 2) experience a second transient, BioRBC antibody response; and 3) display a pattern of RBC survival that is identical to their prior dosing with BioRBCs at the same dose.
The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of the different oral iron preparations in children with IDA.
The purpose of this project is to compare two pharmacist-led population management strategies designed to increase the rate of appropriate monitoring of vitamin B12 and serum creatinine for patients taking metformin.