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Filter by:To determine the long term effects of pulse high dose dexamethasone and conventional dose prednisolone in treatment of adult patients with ITP.
The main purpose of this study is to compare how one 50 mg tablet of SB-497115 is broken down in the body by healthy subjects versus subjects with mild, moderate or severe kidney problems. The study is also being done to 1) check on how well the study drug is tolerated by healthy subjects versus those with liver problems and 2) to check if liver impairment affects how the study drug binds to protein in the blood.
The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy, safety and tolerability, of AKR-501 (avatrombopag) tablets, as compared to placebo, in the treatment of participants with chronic Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP).
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of long term dosing of AMG 531 in thrombocytopenic Japanese subjects with ITP. It is anticipated that AMG 531 will be a safe and well tolerated in long term treatment and that AMG 531 will effectively raise and maintain platelet counts to a desired therapeutic range, when individual dose adjustments based on platelet counts are permitted. This study is available to subjects who have completed any previous AMG 531 ITP study in Japan and meet the eligibility criteria of this study.
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a thrombotic microangiopathy defined by the spontaneous formation of platelet thrombi in the microvessels. These platelet microthrombi are responsible for a mechanical hemolytic anemia, a thrombocytopenia and a multivisceral ischemia. TTP is a rare but life-threatening disease in the absence of appropriate treatment (PLASMATHERAPY). The onset of the disease usually occurs in adulthood (MOSCHCOVITZ syndrome) and rarely in childhood (UPSHAW-SCHULMAN syndrome). TTP is either sporadic or recurrent with multiple unpredictable relapses. TTP pathophysiology has remained obscure until a new metalloprotease, ADAMTS13, has been demonstrated to be involved in about 90% of all cases. Physiologically, ADAMTS13 function consists in limiting the size of von Willebrand factor (VWF) multimers and consequently, their hemostatic capacity. A large majority of TTP is associated with a severe deficiency of ADAMTS13. In most cases, ADAMTS13 severe deficiency is acquired via auto-antibodies to ADAMTS13; more rarely, ADAMTS13 deficiency is hereditary via ADAMTS13 gene mutations. ADAMTS13 auto-antibodies are either inhibitory of the catalytic activity or non inhibitory. ADAMTS13 mutations are spread all over the gene. TTP prognosis is quite heterogeneous. Indeed, in about one third of the patients, TTP is refractory to PLASMATHERAPY and/or chronic relapsing. Until now, TTP prognosis factors are not known. Their identification is however crucial both to adapt the curative treatment of an acute episode (addition of first intention immunosuppressive agents to PLASMATHERAPY) and to prevent relapses. In this context, the aim of the current project is to identify some ADAMTS13 related prognosis factors in TTP. A national prospective multicenter study including both adult and pediatric patients with TTP related to a severe ADAMTS13 deficiency will be designed over a three-year period. This study will involve our group as the French reference center for ADAMTS13 and 10 clinical departments from various French hospitals. Patients will be tested for ADAMTS13 activity and antigen, ADAMTS13 antibodies and ADAMTS13 gene sequencing. Our main hypothesis is that the inactivation of the ADAMTS13 domains crucial for its catalytic activity, either by inhibitory auto-antibodies (acquired TTP) or by genetic mutations (hereditary TTP) is a major bad prognosis factor.
Octagam is a solvent/detergent-treated human normal immunoglobulin (IGIV) solution for intravenous administration. Octagam 5% is currently registered in about 80 countries. This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of Octagam 10% in Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) in adults. As Octagam 10% is essentially similar to Octagam 5%, it is expected that Octagam 10% is as efficacious and safe (in respect to viral safety) as Octagam 5%.
This open-label, repeat dosing study, TRA108057, will evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of eltrombopag, when administered in a repeat, cyclic dosing schedule. The study will describe the effect of repeated (3 cycles), intermittent dosing of eltrombopag on the pharmacodynamics and durability of eltrombopag response as measured by the peripheral platelet counts. For more information or to see if you qualify, please visit: http://www.itpstudy.com/gov
This is a phase 3b, multi-center, randomized, Standard of Care (SOC)-controlled, open-label, 52-week treatment study to compare romiplostim to medical SOC for Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP), with a 6-month Safety Follow-up. Patients randomized to romiplostim must complete the taper or discontinuation of medical SOC for ITP as soon as medically feasible after the initiation of romiplostim. After the completion or discontinuation of the study treatment period, any participant who does not transfer in to another romiplostim study will complete a 6-month Safety Follow-up period.
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.
Childhood immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP) is a disorder characterized by the production of antibodies against platelets, resulting in enhanced destruction of platelets. Most children with ITP present with low platelet counts (PC) but minimal bleeding. Very rarely a child may present with a severe life-threatening bleed, such as a bleed in the head. In this case it is very important that the PC be raised as quickly as possible. The combination of corticosteroids and intravenous gammaglobulin (IVIG) is commonly used in the management of such severe bleeding in children with ITP to quickly raise the PC and yet this treatment combination has not been tested against using IVIG alone. If it is shown that the combination of these agents does result in a quicker rise in PC then when using IVIG alone would support the use of this combination therapy in emergency situations. As we can not ethically conduct this study in patients with life-threatening bleeds, we plan to study patients with ITP and PC less than 20 X 109/L, but without life threatening bleeding. Eligible patients will be randomized to one of these 2 regimens (IVIG + placebo or IVIG + IV corticosteroids). The study is designed as a double-blind trial, where the patient or the treating physician will not be aware of the regimen that a patient is randomized to. PC's will be measured as a surrogate measure of bleeding risk; bleeding scores (a score generated by observing patients for bleeding symptoms) will be used to grade bleeding severity, and adverse effects to treatment will be monitored by the means of questionnaires throughout the study.