Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trial
Official title:
Sirolimus for Patients With Chronic and/or Refractory Autoimmune Cytopenias: A Pilot Series
Treatment for patients with autoimmune destruction of blood cells is poor. The part of the body that fights infections is called the immune system and white blood cells (WBCs) are part of the immune system. Normally, a person's body creates WBCs to fight infections and eliminates WBCs which have stopped helping the body function. Patients with autoimmune destruction of blood cells have difficulty eliminating old WBCs. The abnormal WBCs build up and can damage other healthy cells, which can lead to anemia, fatigue, jaundice, internal bleeding, infection, and cancer. Few effective medications exist for treatment for patients with autoimmune cytopenias and those commonly used are fraught with side effects. Nevertheless, as scientific understanding of autoimmune diseases has improved, more directed and less toxic therapies are becoming available. A number of groups have been studying the efficacy of a medication called sirolimus in patients with autoimmune diseases. This medicine has been FDA-approved for over 20 years. Sirolimus is a medicine used in children with other diseases. Sirolimus works, in part, by eliminating old and abnormal WBCs. Our group and others have shown that sirolimus is effective in mice with autoimmunity and in children with a rare condition called Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS). We believe sirolimus will help children with autoimmune cytopenias. We believe it will improve their symptoms and make them less sick. We propose to study sirolimus in children with chronic and/or refractory autoimmune cytopenias.
Patients with autoimmune destruction of hematopoietic cells frequently have severe and
debilitating disease requiring aggressive and frequent medical management. These patients are
often treated with non-specific immunosuppressive medications with limited efficacy and
untoward side-effect profiles. We have been investigating the use of an immunosuppressive and
anti-cancer agent, sirolimus in patients with an autoimmune cytopenias syndrome: Autoimmune
Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS). ALPS is a primary immune deficiency caused by mutations
in the Fas apoptotic pathway, leading to abnormal lymphocyte survival. Clinical
manifestations in patients with ALPS typically include autoimmune cytopenias,
lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, and a propensity to develop secondary malignancies.
Thus, far we have found excellent results albeit the total number of patients treated is
small.
Sirolimus is a signal transduction inhibitor with a tolerable side effect profile. Sirolimus
has two properties making it an attractive agent to treat patients with autoimmune cytopenias
syndromes, including ALPS. First, sirolimus induces apoptosis in normal and abnormal white
blood cells, the cell type dysregulated in patients with autoimmune disease. In addition,
sirolimus increases a T cell subset called Regulatory T cells (Tregs). Tregs are a cell
population designed to suppress the immune system and control autoimmunity. These combined
properties make sirolimus unique as compared with other immunosuppressive agents. Ample
preclinical and clinical data exists demonstrating sirolimus in effective in patients with
autoimmunity. Accordingly, we hypothesize sirolimus is a safe and efficacious medication for
patients with autoimmune destruction of blood cells..
We plan to confirm our hypotheses by performing a pilot series in children with autoimmune
cytopenias who are either refractory to standard therapy or have significant toxicity from
standard treatments. Our primary aim is to define the toxicities of administration of oral
sirolimus in children with autoimmune cytopenias. Our secondary aims are to evaluate the
efficacy of sirolimus in children with autoimmune cytopenias, to determine the trough levels
of sirolimus when used in these patients, and to evaluate the effects of sirolimus on
intracellular targets of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR). We intend to enroll 50
children with autoimmune cytopenias and treat for a 6 month period, however, if we find
sirolimus is effective, we anticipate these children will continue to take sirolimus for a
longer period of time. We anticipate the results of this work will establish sirolimus is an
effective and well tolerated medication and will lead directly to a larger national phase II
clinical trial.
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