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NCT number NCT00000581
Other study ID # 301
Secondary ID N01-HB-6-2970N01
Status Completed
Phase Phase 3
First received October 27, 1999
Last updated November 25, 2013
Start date September 1976
Est. completion date September 1981

Study information

Verified date January 2000
Source National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority United States: Federal Government
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To evaluate granulocyte transfusion therapy with respect to its prophylactic and therapeutic effectiveness to prevent and aid recovery from infection. The study trials were conducted simultaneously.


Description:

BACKGROUND:

Infection remains a major cause of death in patients receiving chemotherapy for malignant diseases. One approach to the problem of septicemia and high mortality in these patients was the therapeutic use of granulocyte transfusions. Improvements in collection techniques, employing continuous flow centrifugation, permitted the collection of granulocytes from a single, normal donor in sufficient numbers to study their application in the treatment of infections in granulocytopenic patients. Studies had demonstrated the efficacy of granulocyte transfusions as an adjunct in the therapy of septicemia due to gram negative microorganisms associated with granulocytopenia.

The aims of the study were to determine (1) whether infections could be prevented in patients who received granulocytes prophylactically and (2) whether recovery from infection was aided in patients who received granulocytes therapeutically. Both trials utilized controls who received no granulocytes.

Four contracts were awarded in September 1976. The protocol designed to evaluate the efficacy of prophylactic granulocyte transfusions was completed at the close of 1977. The protocol for the therapeutic trial was completed in April 1978. Approximately 90 patients were randomized in the prophylactic trial and 51 in the therapeutic trial. The Recruitment and Intervention Phase ended in February 1980. The trial has concluded.

DESIGN NARRATIVE:

Prophylactic Trial and Therapeutic Trial: randomized, non-blind, sequential. Eligible patients were randomized to daily granulocyte transfusions or no granulocyte transfusions.

The study completion date listed in this record was inferred from the first publication listed in the Citations section of this study record.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 0
Est. completion date September 1981
Est. primary completion date
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 12 Years and older
Eligibility Prophylactic Trial: males and females, 12 years or older, who were in the first induction phase of chemotherapy for acute leukemia, who had severe neutropenia, and who did not have documented infection.

Therapeutic Trial: males and females, any

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Primary Purpose: Prevention


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Procedure:
leukocyte transfusions


Locations

Country Name City State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

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

References & Publications (2)

Strauss RG, Connett JE, Gale RP, Bloomfield CD, Herzig GP, McCullough J, Maguire LC, Winston DJ, Ho W, Stump DC, Miller WV, Koepke JA. A controlled trial of prophylactic granulocyte transfusions during initial induction chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia. N Engl J Med. 1981 Sep 10;305(11):597-603. — View Citation

Winston DJ, Ho WG, Gale RP. Prophylactic granulocyte transfusions during chemotherapy of acute nonlymphocytic leukemia. Ann Intern Med. 1981 May;94(5):616-22. — View Citation

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