Imaging of Apoptosis in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Clinical Trial

Official title:

In Vivo Imaging of Destructive Processes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02978144
• Other study ID #: AAAR0417
• Secondary ID: 1R01HL131960-01
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: June 15, 2017
• Est. completion date: April 2024

Study information

• Verified date: July 2023
• Source: Columbia University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This will be a prospective study examining the use of 99mTc-Annexin V-128 (AxV-128/Tc) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/computerized tomography (CT) technology in the imaging and functional assessment of the lung of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), healthy volunteer smokers without COPD and healthy volunteer subjects without smoking history. The aim of study is to determine if patients with COPD have an increased AxV-128/Tc signal with SPECT/CT.

Description:

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death and is characterized by clinical symptoms and spirometry. Additional measures for diagnosis can be taken using imaging modalities such as CT. However, the evaluation of lung destruction in COPD is limited by the inability to visualize the activation of pathological processes since imaging modalities are only able to evaluate end-organ damage. In this proposal, the investigators aim to assess a molecular imaging probe targeting apoptosis, a cellular process known to be pathogenic in COPD. Apoptosis, a process of programmed cellular death, correlates with COPD severity and is not seen in the normal adult lung. In the past several years the investigators have demonstrated the successful ability of AxV-128/Tc to detect apoptosis in vivo in a preclinical animal model of smoke exposure emphysema model. Additionally, Phase 1 studies have demonstrated safety of this agent in healthy patients. Therefore, the investigators will bring AxV-128/Tc forward as a probe to image the apoptotic disease process of the lung in patients with COPD. The investigators will determine if the imaging signal correlates with serum biomarkers of apoptosis and inflammation. It is the investigators' hypothesis that AxV-128/99mTc imaging will show increased uptake in the lungs of patients with COPD, and that this signal intensity will correlate with accepted markers of apoptosis and inflammation. If successful, such an approach will be a powerful tool to potentially predict disease progression after diagnosis, identify patients at risk for disease exacerbation related lung function decline, and monitor response to disease targeted therapy.

The total effective dose from the combined SPECT and CT scans is 6.2 millisievert (mSv). This effective dose is below what a patient receives during a standard 2 dose rest and stress cardiac nuclear imaging study and well within the range of current clinical nuclear imaging tests. The exact long term risk for development of cancer from diagnostic radiological procedures is currently under debate but all imaging procedures in this study are aimed to keep total radiation burden As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 34
• Est. completion date: April 2024
• Est. primary completion date: April 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with moderate COPD: Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Stage II, forced expiratory volume 1 (FEV1)/forced vital capacity (FVC) < 0.7 and FEV1 50-79% predicted

• Patients with severe COPD: GOLD Stage III-IV, FEV1/FVC < 0.7 and FEV1 < 50% predicted

• Healthy controls who are currently smoking (> 10 pack years) with normal spirometry (FEV1 > 80% and FEV1/FVC > 70%)

• Healthy controls who never smoked (less than 100 lifetime cigarettes) with normal spirometry (FEV1 > 80% and FEV1/FVC > 70%)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age < 18 years

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Lung Diseases
• Lung Diseases, Obstructive
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Intervention

Radiation:
• SPECT-CT imaging
Injection of AxV-128 labeled with 99mTc followed by SPECT-CT

Drug:
• AxV-128/Tc
Injection of AxV-128 labeled with 99mTc

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	New York	New York

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Columbia University	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Mean AxV-128/Tc Uptake	Mean ± standard deviation (SD) for values for uptake of AxV-128/Tc for individual lobes and for lungs will be determined for each COPD group and compared using unpaired t-test for values with Gaussian distribution and Mann Whitney (Wilcoxon rank) test for continuous variables without normal distribution.	Up to 18 months from the initial scan