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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01891994
Extended Dosing With Eltrombopag for Severe Aplastic Anemia
Extended Dosing With Eltrombopag in Refractory Severe Aplastic Anemia
Background:
- Eltrombopag is a drug being tested for treating severe aplastic anemia. It can help improve blood counts in these patients. However, researchers do not know how long the drug can and should be taken for this type of anemia.
Objectives:
- To look at whether 6 months of treatment with eltrombopag can improve patient s blood counts.
Eligibility:
- Individuals at least 2 years of age who are taking eltrombopag for severe aplastic anemia.
Design:
- Participants will take eltrombopag by mouth once a day for 6 months.
- Blood samples will be collected every 2 weeks for the first 6 months. Bone marrow samples will be collected at 3 and 6 months. These samples will look at the effects of the study drug on the marrow.
- Participants will continue to take the study drug for as long as it is effective and if the side effects are not severe.
Study Overview
Detailed Description
Severe aplastic anemia (SAA) is a life-threatening blood disease that can be successfully treated with immunosuppressive drug regimens or allogeneic stem cell transplantation. However, 20-40% of patients are ineligible for transplant due to lack of an appropriate donor, age, or comorbidities. Immunosuppression can be more broadly utilized, but about 1/3 of patients do not respond to a single course of horse ATG and cyclosporine and have persistent severe cytopenias. Among patients who do respond to immunosuppression, responses may be partial, with persistent thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, and/or anemia. About 30% of responding patients either relapse or are dependent on continued cyclosporine administration. Patients with refractory severe cytopenias are at risk of dying from infection or bleeding, and they require regular platelet and/or red blood cell transfusions, which are expensive and inconvenient, Patients with refractory SAA are also at risk for progression to other hematologic disorders, including myelodysplasia and leukemia.
Thrombopoietin (TPO) was first identified as the principal protein regulating platelet production, and it stimulates the proliferation of megakaryocytes and release of platelets. TPO was later shown to stimulate proliferation of more primitive bone marrow stem and progenitor cells in vitro and in animal models, suggesting it could have an impact of production of red and white blood cells as well as platelets.
The 2nd generation oral small molecule TPO-agonist eltrombopag (Promacta ) has been shown to increase platelets in healthy subjects and in thrombocytopenic patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infection. Eltrombopag has been well-tolerated in clinical trials, and unlike recombinant TPO, it does not induce autoantibodies. Eltrombopag received FDA accelerated approval on November 20, 2008 for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in patients with chronic immune (idiopathic) thrombocytopenic purpura who have had an insufficient response to corticosteroids, immunoglobulins, or splenectomy. In November 2012, FDA approval was received for hepatitis C associated thrombocytopenia.
We conducted a pilot dose finding study in patients with severe aplastic anemia who had refractory thrombocytopenia following standard immunosuppressive therapy. Patients began at a dose of 50 mg/day and escalated every two weeks to a maximum dose of 150 mg/day. We reported that 11 of 25 patients (44%) achieved hematological response in at least one lineage following 12 weeks of dose-escalating eltrombopag therapy, with minimal toxicity. Responding patients as assessed at 12 weeks were invited to continue on drug in an extension phase. With a median follow-up of 27 months on drug, 7 eventually became tri-lineage responders. Nine became transfusion-independent for platelets (median increase in platelet count 34,000/micro l), six had improved hemoglobin levels (median increase of 3.8g/dL), including three previously dependent on red cell transfusions achieving transfusion-independence, and eight exhibiting increased neutrophil counts (median increase 590 cells/mico L). Serial bone marrow biopsies demonstrated normalization of tri-lineage hematopoiesis in responders, without increased fibrosis.
In the previous study, response assessment occurred at 12 weeks, and patients not fulfilling response criteria at that time had the drug discontinued. Several patients began to have detectable changes in transfusion requirements or blood counts by 12 weeks, but did not fulfill response criteria by that time point and therefore had to discontinue eltrombopag. Other patients who barely met response criteria at 12 weeks showed very marked further improvements in blood counts in all lineages during the extension phase, in some cases not reaching maximal responses until one year after initiating eltrombopag. We hypothesize that a larger fraction of patients may respond if eltrombopag is continued for longer than 12 weeks.
We, therefore propose a follow-up Phase 2 study giving eltrombopag treatment for 24 weeks prior to definitive response assessment, and initiating study medication at a fixed dose of 150 mg/day (75 mg /day for individuals of East Asian ethnicity), given lack of toxicity at that dose in the prior study, and no evidence for response in any patient during dose escalation prior to reaching this dose. Responses will be assessed in all three lineages. Subjects with platelet, red cell, and/or neutrophil responses at 24 weeks may continue study medication (extended access) until they meet off study criteria.
The primary objective is to assess the efficacy of 6 months of eltrombopag administration in improving bone marrow function in SAA patients with persistent severe cytopenias refractory to treatment with immunosuppressive treatment.
Secondary objectives include assessment of relapse or clonal evolution, pre-treatment characteristics predicting response, and the impact of treatment and treatment response on quality of life.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 2
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Maryland
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Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
- National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
- INCLUSION CRITERIA:
- Previous diagnosis of refractory severe aplastic anemia and following at least one treatment course of immunosuppression with a regimen containing antithymocyte globulin, alemtuzumab or cyclophosphamide.
- One or more of the following three clinically-significant cytopenias: platelet count less than or equal to 30,000/micro L or platelet-transfusion-dependence (requiring at least 4 platelet transfusions in the 8 weeks prior to study entry); neutrophil count less than 500/micro L; hemoglobin less than 9.0 g/dL or red cell transfusion-dependence (requiring at least 4 units of PRBCs in the eight weeks prior to study entry)
- Age greater than or equal to 2 years old
- Weight > 12 kg
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
- Infection not adequately responding to appropriate therapy
- Evidence of a clonal disorder on cytogenetics performed within 12 weeks of study entry.
- Creatinine > 2.5 mg/dL
- Direct Bilirubin > 2.0 mg/dL
- SGOT or SGPT >5 times the upper limit of normal
- Hypersensitivity to eltrombopag or its components<TAB>
- Female subjects who are nursing or pregnant or are unwilling to take oral contraceptives or refrain from pregnancy if of childbearing potential
- Unable to understand the investigational nature of the study or give informed consent
- Moribund status or concurrent hepatic, renal, cardiac, neurologic, pulmonary, infectious, or metabolic disease of such severity that it would preclude the patient s ability to tolerate protocol therapy, or that death within 7-10 days is likely
- Treatment with ATG, cyclophophamide or alemtuzamab within 6 months of study entry.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: N/A
- Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Eltrombopag
Administration of eltrombopag at a dose of 150mg/day for 6 months
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Oral administration of eltrombopag 150mg/day (75 mg/day for East Asian ancestry) for 6 months
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Number of Participants With Drug Response as Defined by Clinically-signficant Hematologic Improvements
Time Frame: 24 weeks
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Defined as unilineage or multilineage recovery by 1 or more of the following: 1) platelet response (increase to 20 × 103/μL above baseline or stable platelet counts with transfusion independence for a minimum of 8 weeks in those who were transfusion dependent on entry into the protocol); (2) erythroid response (when pretreatment hemoglobin was <9 g/dL, defined as an increase in hemoglobin by 1.5 g/dL or, in transfused patients, a reduction in the units of packed red blood cell transfusions by an absolute number of at least 4 transfusions for 8 consecutive weeks, compared with the pretreatment transfusion number in the previous 8 weeks); and (3) neutrophil response (when pretreatment absolute neutrophil count [ANC] of <0.5 × 103/μL as at least a 100% increase in ANC, or an ANC increase >0.5 × 103/μL, and the toxicity profile as measured using Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events).
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24 weeks
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Collaborators and Investigators
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Zhao Z, Sun Q, Sokoll LJ, Streiff M, Cheng Z, Grasmeder S, Townsley DM, Young NS, Dunbar CE, Winkler T. Eltrombopag mobilizes iron in patients with aplastic anemia. Blood. 2018 May 24;131(21):2399-2402. doi: 10.1182/blood-2018-01-826784. Epub 2018 Apr 9. No abstract available. Erratum In: Blood. 2018 Jul 26;132(4):459.
- Winkler T, Fan X, Cooper J, Desmond R, Young DJ, Townsley DM, Scheinberg P, Grasmeder S, Larochelle A, Desierto M, Valdez J, Lotter J, Wu C, Shalhoub RN, Calvo KR, Young NS, Dunbar CE. Treatment optimization and genomic outcomes in refractory severe aplastic anemia treated with eltrombopag. Blood. 2019 Jun 13;133(24):2575-2585. doi: 10.1182/blood.2019000478. Epub 2019 Apr 16.
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Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 130133
- 13-H-0133
- NCT01891994 (Registry Identifier: ClinicalTrials.gov)
Drug and device information, study documents
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