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Filter by:This study was a Phase II, single-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial to determine whether anti-vWF Nanobody is safe and effective as adjunctive treatment in patients with aTTP. Patients received either placebo or anti-vWF Nanobody as adjunctive therapy to plasma exchange (PE).
The purpose of this study is to describe the number of months with a platelet response over a 12 month treatment period and to describe ITP remission rates in adults with ITP receiving romiplostim.
The purpose of this study is to determine the response rate and response duration with the combination of low-dose rituximab and high-dose dexamethasone in the treatment of adult immune thrombocytopenic purpura.
A open-label, multi-center 2-year safety study to ascertain the baseline levels of bone marrow fibers in previously treated adults with chronic immune (idiopathic) thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and to evaluate the long-term effect of eltrombopag on bone marrow fibers. The study will also describe the long-term safety and tolerability of oral eltrombopag treatment in subjects with chronic ITP.
This is a randomized, open-label, five-period, balanced crossover study conducted in approximately 40 healthy adult subjects enrolled at one study center in the USA. Subjects receive five eltrombopag treatments: tablet fasted, Powder for Oral Suspension (PfOS) fasted, PfOS with a high calcium meal, PfOS 2 hours prior to a high calcium meal, and PfOS 2 hours after a high calcium meal, and each treatment is a single 25 mg dose. There is a 10 to 14 day washout between periods, and between the last dose of study drug and the follow-up visit. During each treatment period, subjects undergo serial PK sampling over 72 hours for measurement of plasma eltrombopag concentrations. Safety is assessed by vital signs, clinical safety laboratory assessments, and adverse events reporting.
This is an extension study designed to assess the safety and durability of platelet count increases with romiplostim treatment of thrombocytopenic patients with immune (Idiopathic) thrombocytopenia purpura. This study is available to pediatric patients who have completed a previous romiplostim ITP study and meet the eligibility criteria of this study.
Since Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) affects women who are of reproductive capacity and taking into account the lack of data concerning Eltrombopag (Promacta) use during pregnancy, the Eltrombopag (Promacta) Registry will be an essential component of the ongoing risk management for Eltrombopag (Promacta). The Registry will detect and record the events (live births, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, elective terminations, therapeutic terminations, any serious pregnancy outcome, major and minor congenital anomalies, outcomes including preterm, small for gestation age, or intrauterine growth restriction adverse adverse effects on the following: immune system development, platelet number and function, neoplasm formation, bone marrow reticulin formation, thrombotic events) in the mother and/or the neonate/infant. The adverse events in the infant will be assessed through at least the first year of life. The Pregnancy Registry will compare the pregnancy and fetal outcomes of women exposed to eltrombopag Tablets during pregnancy to an unexposed control population. This study will be a prospective observational, exposure follow-up study.
The primary purpose of the study is to describe by a prospective observational study the serious adverse events occurring in patients treated off-label by rituximab for various auto-immune diseases.
TTP is a rare and serious blood disorder, characterized by the formation of small clots (micro thrombi) within the circulation and can be fatal. The formation of blood clots occurs primarily in the smaller blood vessels, the arterioles and capillaries, associated with multisystem organ involvement, especially the brain and kidneys. TTP has an incidence of approximately 1-3 people/million of the population/year. TTP is due to a decrease in an enzyme, ADAMTS 13 that is released by cells lining blood vessels (endothelial cells). ADAMTS 13 'cleaves' or breaks down very large von Willebrand Factor (vWF) strands. vWF is used in blood clotting. Deficiency or inhibition of the enzyme, results in release of the ultra large vWF into the circulation. Platelets bind to these ultra large vWF multimers, promoting blood clot formation and platelet consumption (thrombocytopenia). In more then 70% of TTP cases no precipitating cause can be found and the majority of these patients have antibodies against ADAMTS 13. Plasma Exchange (PEX) was introduced in the management of TTP in 1977 and the mortality of TTP patients has since decreased from approximately 90% to 15-20%. PEX is essential in TTP treatment as plasma contains the missing enzyme ADAMTS 13. Rituximab (licensed and internationally used monoclonal antibody) selectively acts on white blood cells known as B-lymphocytes or B cells that produce the antibody to ADAMTS 13. By inhibiting ADAMTS 13 antibody production, ADAMTS 13 activity increases, resulting in remission. Rituximab has been used in our institutions in patients with acute TTP that are refractory to standard treatment - PEX. The resulting remission has been dramatic, with a non-toxic side effect profile and no patients to date has relapsed (longest follow-up 19 months) following Rituximab therapy. Therefore, we plan to use Rituximab with PEX in patients who present with acute TTP.
In this study we want to investigate if combination therapy with rituximab (R) + dexamethasone (DXM) is superior to monotherapy with DXM in patients with newly diagnosed idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Before treatment molecular studies - gene expression profiling - are performed to characterize at the molecular level those patients responding adequately to the treatment as compared to those obtaining a minor or no responses. The hypothesis is that combination therapy is superior to monotherapy as defined above. Using gene expression studies up-front the hypothesis is that this method may be able to predict the response to treatment.