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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of iron chelation using deferasirox in low and INT-1 risk (referring to the international prognostic scoring system, IPSS) MDS patients who show signs of iron overload due to repeated blood transfusions. This trial is not recruiting patients in the United States.
Certain percentage of MDS patients develop iron overload. Iron is known to participate in intracellular reactions that generate free radicals, inducing oxidative stress and apoptosis, which was found to be increased in MDS patients and consequently resulted in ineffective hematopoiesis. The aim of this study is to evaluate the antioxidant effect of the oral iron chelator Deferasirox -Exjade in low risk MDS patients with iron over load by evaluating changes in several oxidative stress parameters Certain percentage of MDS patients develop iron overload.
The purpose of this trial is to evaluate changes in cardiac iron as measured by MRI T2* in beta-thalassemia patients with deferasirox treatment.
Iron excess is increasingly regarded as an important cofactor in the morbidity attributed to many disorders. Assessment of body iron stores by measurement of serum ferritin concentrations has poor specificity and the most reliable method is histological or biochemical assessment from a liver biopsy. Because liver biopsy is an invasive procedure, imaging methods have been developed to detect and quantify hepatic iron content. The aim of the study is to use a simplified magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique to quantify simultaneously iron and fat contents in the liver and to compare the results to the quantification obtained biochemically.
Brief Summary: This study was designed to explore a safe dose and characterize the preliminary safety and efficacy of ICL670 in adult patients with previously documented history of homozygous C282Y.
In this 4-year extension study the safety, efficacy and and pharmacokinetics of deferasirox in regularly transfused pediatric patients with β-thalassemia major was assessed. Patients who successfully completed the main 1 year trial (NCT00390858) were eligible to continue in this extension trial and receive chelation therapy with deferasirox for up to 4 years.
A 1-year randomized Phase IIa core trial followed by a prolongation of 5 to 9 months was conducted to investigate the efficacy and safety of deferasirox in patients aged ≥ 18 years with transfusion-dependent iron overload. The objective of this extension study is to assess the long-term safety of deferasirox and to provide treatment in patients with transfusional iron overload.
This is an open-label, non-randomized, multi-center trial designed to provide expanded access of deferasirox to patients with congenital disorders of red blood cells and chronic iron overload from blood transfusions who cannot adequately be treated with locally approved iron chelators.
This study uses a single arm, multi-center, open-label trial design. The study will assess the efficacy and safety of 52 weeks of treatment with deferasirox (ICL670) in patients with evidence of transfusion induced iron overload.
To allow patients treated with deferasirox in the core study to continue iron chelation therapy for 2 years or until the drug became locally commercially available. To evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of deferasirox by measuring treatment success, change in liver iron content (LIC) and change in serum ferritin levels. Safety was mainly assessed by incidence of adverse events (AEs)and clinically significant lab parameters.