Perioperative Eltrombopag in Patients With Inherited Thrombocytopenia — ELPOT  

Thrombocytopenia Clinical Trial

Official title: Evaluation of Perioperative Eltrombopag for the Management of Elective Surgery and Invasive Acts in Patients With Inherited Thrombocytopenia

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The objective of the study is to estimate the response to eltrombopag based on platelet count increase above a safety level of 80 G/L and lack of requirement for pre-, per- and post-operative administration of platelet concentrates (PC) for performing elective invasive acts at mild or high bleeding risk,in selected patients with inherited thrombocytopenia (IT).

Clinical Trial Description

The hypothesis of the trial is that preoperative treatment by a thrombopoietin mimetic (eltrombopag) will be effective and safe and will avoid requirement of PC administration in a majority of IT patients Eltrombopag is a thrombopoietin mimetic available orally, not licenced for the treatment of IT. Preliminary data in short series of IT patients indicate that eltrombopag, at the doses used in primary immune thrombocytopenia, increases the platelet counts after 2-4 weeks of treatment and reduces spontaneous bleeding in a significant proportion of subjects. The tolerance of short-term treatment is good. The experience of eltrombopag for the management of perioperative thrombocytopenia in IT is anecdotic. Avoiding the administration of platelet concentrates in these patients, especially children, would represent a direct benefit by preventing adverse reactions to transfusion of blood products and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) immunisation.

Eltrombopag will be prescribed after the inclusion visit at the standard dose of 50 mg/day with dose adjustment on the platelet count (+/- 25 mg) after 2 weeks, for a maximum of 4 weeks before the invasive procedure. If the predefined safety level of platelet count required for the procedure is reached, the treatment will be discontinued and the patient operated without prophylactic administration of PC. In case of bleeding of undetermined cause per-and post-operatively, rescue PC will be given.

Clinical and biological follow-up will be performed until the end-of-study visit, 4 weeks after the intake of the last tablet of eltrombopag. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Thrombocytopenia

• NCT number: NCT03638817
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University Hospital, Toulouse
• Contact: Pierre SIE, Prof.
• Phone: 561322289
• Email: sie.p@chu-toulouse.fr
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: August 2, 2019
• Completion date: December 2023