Auto-immunity and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

HIV Infection Clinical Trial

— Auto-HTAP  

Official title:

Auto-immunity and Prognosis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01208792
• Other study ID #: P071209
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 12, 2010
• Last updated: August 11, 2017
• Start date: June 15, 2010
• Est. completion date: May 15, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: August 2017
• Source: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators have recently evidenced the presence of antibodies to endothelial cells and fibroblasts in patients with idiopathic or SSc-associated PAH. The investigators also have identified several target antigens of anti-fibroblasts antibodies.

The objective of this study is to further investigate for the presence of antibodies to endothelial cells and fibroblasts in patients and characterize the antigen specificity of autoantibodies in patients with different types of non idiopathic and non SSc-associated PAH, such as PAH associated with HIV infection, porto-pulmonary hypertension, congenital heart diseases, systemic lupus erythematosus, mixed connective tissue disease and Sjögren's syndrome

Description:

Two hundred and fifty patients with PAH will be included: 65 patients with idiopathic PAH (iPAH), 20 with PAH associated with HIV infection, 20 with porto-pulmonary hypertension, 20 with PAH secondary to congenital heart disorders, 40 with SSc, 20 with SLE, 20 with MCTD and 10 with a PAH associated with a Sjögren's syndrome.

Two hundred patients without PAH will also be included: 80 patients with SSc and 20 in each of the following groups: HIV infection, porto-pulmonary hypertension, SLE, congenital heart disorders, MCTD and with Sjögren's syndrome.

Twenty patients with proximal chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTPH) will also be included in a control arm of the study.

Two hundred and fifty healthy blood donors age and sex-matched with patients with PAH, will be included as controls.

By using 2D-immunoblotting techniques, we will evidence IgG antibodies to fibroblasts, EC, vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) in multiple groups of patients and we will characterize target antigens of these autoantibodies. We will also assess the production of ROS: nitric oxide (NO), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and the effect of the whole serum (and the IgG particularly) on in VITRO proliferation of EC, fibroblasts and vascular SMC. For sera that will induce the production of ROS, we will study the effect of different vasodilatator (prostacycline, endothelin receptor antagonist, type 5 phosphodiesterase inhibitors) and anti-oxidant therapies.

Expected results We will characterize target antigens of autoantibodies of patients with non-idiopathic and non SSc-associated PAH. We will compare these target to those previously identified in idiopathic or SSc-associated PAH. We will then, distinguish subpopulations of PAH patients whose serum or purified IgG (possibly specific for a given antigen) are able to induce ROS production or cell proliferation. For the population of ROS-producer patients, we will correlate the clinical response to vasodilatator therapy to results of in VITRO inhibition experiments with vasodilatators and anti-oxidant molecules.

Perspectives The characterization of target antigens of EC, fibroblasts and vascular SMC specifically

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 629
• Est. completion date: May 15, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: July 15, 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

age over 18

• for PAH patients: pre-capillary PAH evidenced by right-heart catheterization

• no associated systemic disease for idiopathic PAH patients

• for HIV patients, HIV1 infection confirmed by ELISA and western blot

• for patients with porto pulmonary hypertension: evidence by endoscopy of esophageal varices, confirmation of hepatic venous pressure gradient over 5 mmHg by catheterization of the hepatic veins

• for patients with congenital heart defect: evidence by imaging of atrial or ventricular septal defect, or patent ductus arterious and confirmed by heart catheterization

• patients with SSc will fulfill the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the LEROY and MEDSGER criteria

• patients with MCTD will fulfill the criteria for MCTD

• patients with SLE will fulfill the updated and revised ACR criteria

• patients with Sjögren's syndrome will fulfill the American-European consensus group criteria

• patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: Lung scintiscan showing segmental mismatched perfusion defects and confirmation by angiography of the occlusion and the chance of success of endarterectomy according to the location of disease

• Signed written informed consent

• Patients with health insurance

Exclusion Criteria:

• age under 18

• pregnant women

• absence of written informed consent

• associated malignant tumor

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Autoimmune Diseases
• Congenital Heart Defect
• Connective Tissue Disease
• Connective Tissue Diseases
• Familial Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
• Heart Defects, Congenital
• HIV Infection
• HIV Infections
• Hypertension
• Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
• Scleroderma, Diffuse
• Scleroderma, Systemic
• Sclerosis
• Systemic Sclerosis

Intervention

Procedure:
• skin biopsy
The biopsy site (usually the forearm) will be first cleaned, and then anesthetized with pain relieving (spray, cream, or injection). The skin is then sampled using a punch that takes a core (a small cylindrical fragment of tissue from the area of interest

Other:
• Blood Sample
a blood sample will be collected

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Pneumology Department, Antoine Béclère Hospital	Clamart
France	Internal Medicine Department, Claude Huriez Hospital	Lille
France	Internal Medicine Department, Cochin Hospital	Paris

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Immunological markers of prognosis interest in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)		one year
Secondary	Target antigens of autoantibodies	To characterize target antigens of autoantibodies in non-idiopathic and non-SSc associated PAH and to compare these target antigens to those recognized by autoantibodies directed at endothelial cells, fibroblasts and vascular smooth muscle cells in patients with idiopathic and SSc-associated PAH;	one year
Secondary	Subpopulations of patients with PAH whose serum is able to induce the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS)	To study and characterize subpopulations of patients with PAH whose serum is able to induce the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and/or cell proliferation.; In patients in whom the whole serum induces cell proliferation and ROS production in cell cultures, to correlate the results of inhibition experiments in vivo in the presence of vasodilators used in the treatment of PAH and clinical response to these vasodilators	one year