Efficacy and Safety of Glucocorticosteroid Treatment in the Patients With Chronic Recurrent DILI

August 7, 2020 updated by: Beijing 302 Hospital

A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial on the Efficacy and Safety of Glucocorticosteroid in the Patients With Chronic Recurrent Drug-induced Liver Injury

This study is to observe the efficacy and safety of glucocorticosteroid treatment in the patients with chronic recurrent drug-induced liver injury (DILI).

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) refers to liver diseases caused by drugs and toxic substances. DILI is a clinical event that can be associated with severe outcomes such as acute liver failure. Up to now, approximately 1000 drugs, herbal products, vitamins and illicit compounds are associated with liver injury. Recently, the incidence of DILI is rising. In our hospital, hospitalized patients with DILI was increased from 1.39% in 2002 to 2.31% in 2006, and further up to 3.17% in 2011, which indicated 2.3-folds increase over last ten years.15% to 20% patients with acute DILI are prone to chronic liver disease. For patients with chronic recurrent DILI, routine liver protective treatment was difficult to rescue abnormal liver functions. Moreover, increasing health care costs seriously affect the patient's quality of life. Glucocorticosteroids can inhibit the non-specific inflammation and permeability of the capillary bile duct, limit the activation of T lymphocytes, and selectively inhibit B lymphocytes to produce antibodies, thus preventing or delaying the immune-induced liver injury. Glucocorticoid treatment of severe DILI has accepted some recognition, but the effect of repeated episodes of chronic DILI, due to a lack of randomized controlled studies, is still unclear. Therefore, we shall design two groups on the basis of the ratio of 1:1, namely, glucocorticoid treatment group and standard treatment alone group. Participants in glucocorticoid treatment group will receive methylprednisolone,48mg/d for the 1st week, 32mg/d for the 2nd week, 24mg/d for the next two weeks, followed by 16mg/d for 32 weeks and reduction in doses of methylprednisolone by 4 mg per 4 weeks until drug withdrawal. Participants in glucocorticoid treatment group also receive standard treatment including reduced glutathione, glycyrrhizin, ademetionine, alprostadil,or ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in the first 12 weeks. Participants in standard treatment group will only receive treatment by routine liver protection drugs including reduced glutathione, glycyrrhizin, ademetionine, alprostadil, or ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in the first 12 weeks.The efficacy and safety of glucocorticoid treatment in the patients with chronic recurrent DILI will be observed during the treatment and follow-up period.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

80

Phase

  • Phase 2
  • Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • China
    • Beijing
      • Beijing, Beijing, China, 100039
        • Beijing 302 hospital,China

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

16 years to 58 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Meet with ACG clinic guidelines for diagnostic criteria of chronic DILI;

  2. Meet any of the following conditions:

    • serum AST or ALT ≥ 10 fold ULN;
    • serum AST or ALT ≥ 5 fold ULN and TBIL ≥ 2 fold ULN;
    • liver histology indicates bridging necrosis or multiacinar necrosis or moderate or more inflammation or inflammation G3 or more;
  3. Women of childbearing age had a negative urine pregnancy test, and the subjects are willing to have no family planning during the study and to take effective measures;
  4. Voluntary participation, understanding and signing of informed consent, comply with the requirements of the research;

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients with serious pre-existent comorbid conditions (vertebral compression fractures,psychosis,active peptic ulcer, brittle diabetes,uncontrolled hypertension;
  2. Patients with intolerances to prednisone;
  3. Patients with severe infection receiving antibiotics, anti-fungal,anti-viral therapy;
  4. Viral hepatitis,alcoholic or non-alcoholic liver disease,Wilson's disease or other inherited metabolic liver diseases.
  5. Pregnancy or desire of pregnancy;
  6. Breast-feeding;
  7. Liver cancer or other malignant tumor;

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Methylprednisolone
Participants will receive methylprednisolone from week 0 through week 48 study visit in combination with standard treatment including reduced glutathione, glycyrrhizin, ademetionine, alprostadil,or ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in the first 12 weeks. Participants will then be followed until week 72 study visit.
Drug: Methylprednisolone
Participants will receive methylprednisolone,48mg/d for the 1st week,32mg/d for the 2nd week,24mg/d for the next two weeks, followed by 16mg/d for 32 weeks and reduction in doses of methylprednisolone by 4 mg per 4 weeks until drug withdrawal.Participants will also receive standard treatment including reduced glutathione, glycyrrhizin, ademetionine, alprostadil, or ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in the first 12 weeks.The total treatment duration will be 48 weeks. Follow-up duration is 24 weeks.
Other Names:
  • MEDROL,NDC0009-0056-02
Drug: Standard Treatment
Participants will only receive standard treatment,namely,routine liver protection drugs including reduced glutathione, glycyrrhizin, ademetionine, alprostadil,or ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) from week 0 through week 12 study visit. Participants will then be followed until week 72.
Other Names:
  • Routine liver protection drugs
Active Comparator: Standard Treatment
Participants will only receive standard treatment (namely,routine liver protection drugs) including reduced glutathione, glycyrrhizin, ademetionine, alprostadil,or ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) from week 0 through week 12 study visit. Participants will then be followed until week 72 study visit.
Drug: Standard Treatment
Participants will only receive standard treatment,namely,routine liver protection drugs including reduced glutathione, glycyrrhizin, ademetionine, alprostadil,or ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) from week 0 through week 12 study visit. Participants will then be followed until week 72.
Other Names:
  • Routine liver protection drugs

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
The relapse or recurrent rate of illness, namely, appearance of obviously abnormal liver function again during treatment and follow-up period
Time Frame: At week 24
The biochemical relapse rate was analyzed by either intention to treat (ITT) or per protocol set (PPS). Biochemical relapse was characterized either by the serum alanine transaminase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≥ 3 × upper limits of normal (ULN) or alkaline phosphatase (ALP) ≥ 2 × ULN, or by at least 2 folds increase in serum ALT or AST or ALP from the abnormal index lately.
At week 24
The relapse or recurrent rate of illness, namely, appearance of obviously abnormal liver function again during treatment and follow-up period
Time Frame: At week 72
The biochemical relapse rate was analyzed by either intention to treat (ITT) or per protocol set (PPS). Biochemical relapse was characterized either by the serum alanine transaminase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≥ 3 × upper limits of normal (ULN) or alkaline phosphatase (ALP) ≥ 2 × ULN, or by at least 2 folds increase in serum ALT or AST or ALP from the abnormal index lately.
At week 72

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Days of normalization of liver functions including serum levels of ALT, AST, TBIL,GGT and ALP.
Time Frame: From week 1 to week 12
The normalization time(days) of biochemistry was defined as the days of normalization of each biochemical parameter (ALT, AST, TBil, ALP and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase), respectively.
From week 1 to week 12
The liver histological changes between two liver biopsies
Time Frame: At week 0 and at week 48 week
Histological improvement was defined as at least two points reduce in the activity score, or at least one point decrease in the fibrosis score in accordance to Ishak scoring system.
At week 0 and at week 48 week
The number of participants with methylprednisolone treatment-related adverse events, such as severe osteopenia, uncontrolled hypertension
Time Frame: At week 24 and at week 72
The adverse effects in each group were evaluated according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (version 5.0). The types of steroid-related adverse effects referred to the EASL/AASLD autoimmune hepatitis Guidelines. Adverse effects occurred in both the treatment period and the follow-up period were combined to evaluate.
At week 24 and at week 72

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Beijing 302 Hospital

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Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

December 1, 2015

Primary Completion (Actual)

July 1, 2019

Study Completion (Actual)

July 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

December 25, 2015

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 7, 2016

First Posted (Estimate)

January 11, 2016

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

August 11, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 7, 2020

Last Verified

July 1, 2019

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • BJ302-FGRXGB-001

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

No

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