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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04621916
Preventing Inhibitor Recurrence Indefinitely (PRIORITY)
A Multi-center, Prospective Study Evaluating the Rate of Inhibitor Recurrence Following Successful ITI in Patients Receiving Ongoing Once Per Weekly Factor VIII Therapy Along With Emicizumab and in Patients Who Discontinue FVIII Therapy and Are on Emicizumab for Prophylaxis
This study will enroll children who have hemophilia A with inhibitors who successfully completed immune tolerance induction per the ISTH criteria (negative inhibitor titer, recovery >66% of expected, and half-life of >6 hours with their current FVIII concentrate). Previous to emicizumab, there was only one option for these patients which was to continue FVIII therapy in a prophylaxis mode to prevent bleeding. There was a sense that the ongoing FVIII served to maintain tolerance however no evidence for this notion exists and in fact what limited data is available suggests that continuing FVIII may not be necessary simply to maintain tolerance.
To figure out this question, this will be a randomized, controlled 2 arm study which will randomize patients post-successful ITI to emicizumab plus weekly FVIII (for maintenance of tolerance) versus emicizumab alone. Patients will be followed for up to 2 years. We aim to enroll 52 subjects. The FVIII weekly arm can use any factor VIII concentrate and emicizumab is standard of care for inhibitor and non-inhibitor patients.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Background & rationale: Hemophilia A is a serious life-long genetic bleeding disorder resulting from a mutation in the Factor VIII (FVIII) gene leading to abnormally low levels of FVIII. Treatment consists of replacing the missing FVIII with FVIII clotting factor concentrates (CFC). While FVIII CFC are very effective at preventing joint bleeding, they are immunogenic such that ~30% of patients develop anti-drug antibodies which neutralize the effect of the medications and are thus called inhibitors. Patients with inhibitors have worse morbidity and mortality as a result of increased and more difficult to treat bleeding episodes. Therefore, the major goal of therapy for patients who develop these antibodies is eradication of the inhibitor. The only approach that has been shown to be effective is called immune tolerance induction (ITI), and as its name implies, the purpose is to induce the patient's immune system to no longer make the inhibitors. Immune tolerance induction involves administering FVIII CFC on a regular and often intensive (daily) schedule for many months if not years. It can be effective, however, with successful ITI ranging from 40-90% in numerous previous studies. there exists a sizable minority of patients (~20-25% of all hemophilia A patients) who are ITI successes. For these patients, ongoing FVIII therapy has been the standard of treatment although once tolerization has been achieved, the treatment modality reverts to prophylaxis, however the continued regular exposure to prophylaxis is felt to also serve the purpose of maintaining tolerance.there is little to no data on whether ongoing FVIII exposure is required to maintain tolerance, and it is entirely possible that patients can discontinue routine factor therapy and not have a recurrence of their inhibitor. Only one study has even addressed this issue, and it found that inhibitor recurrence rates were the same among a group of tolerized patients who were subsequently adherent to a prophylaxis regimen and another group who were not adherent and therefore not receiving regular FVIII exposure.
While historically, this was a moot issue since the only appropriate therapy for severe hemophilia patients following successful ITI was to be prescribed FVIII prophylaxis, the recent licensure of a new medication has now made this question and knowledge gap very important. Emicizumab (Hemlibra, Roche, Basel, Switzerland) is a novel, bispecific, monoclonal antibody which can substitute for the function of activated FVIII by bringing activated factor IX and factor X into proper alignment and induce the formation of activated factor X.
Despite the high degree of efficacy of emicizumab for bleed prevention in inhibitor patients, the hemophilia community has still largely taken the stance that inhibitor eradication is a vital goal for any child who develops an inhibitor. The issue that the advent of emicizumab has raised, however, is what to do following successful ITI. As stated, traditionally, patients would continue FVIII therapy in the form of prophylaxis and the question of loss of tolerance and inhibitor recurrence was moot, however given the advantages of emicizumab, it is likely that many patients/parents will not accept continuing with the need for repeated intravenous infusions (and central venous catheters in many children) when an alternative agent with excellent efficacy and a much lower treatment burden exists. Thus, objective of this study is to determine whether ongoing factor VIII therapy is required for maintenance of tolerance.
Study population: patients who have undergone successful ITI and are currently on emicizumab or willing to be on emicizumab.
Study methodology: This will be a prospective, randomized trial of weekly FVIII CFC therapy versus no routine FVIII therapy for patients who have undergone successful ITI and are currently on emicizumab or willing to be on emicizumab.
Description of study arms: Group 1 will receive ongoing once per weekly factor VIII therapy along with emicizumab after completion of a successful ITI. Group 2 will discontinue FVIII therapy and are on emicizumab for prophylaxis after completion of a successful ITI.
Study endpoints: Study endpoints are to find out the number of subjects that maintained immune tolerance with/without FVIII exposure, understand the need for FVIII exposure for maintaining immune tolerance and to estimate the treatment burden and the cost effectivity for ongoing FVIII exposure after a successful ITI.
Follow-up: Patients will be seen every month for inhibitor recurrence until 4th month of the study, and every two months until the first year of the study, at 18th month and at the end of the study. If there is a bleeding episode or an inhibitor, then there will be an unscheduled visit.
Statistics: Patients will be categorized as either having a recurrence of an inhibitor or not. Thus, a 2x2 Chi-square contingency table will be able to group the subjects into those who received ongoing factor VIII and those who did not and those who did versus those who did not have an inhibitor recurrence. Fisher's exact test will be used to calculate the difference in proportion between the groups (inhibitor-positive and inhibitor-negative).
Plans for analysis: Our goal is to complete the project including a submission for an abstract and publication within 24 months from the start of patient accrual.
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Phase 4
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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California
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Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027
- Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≤12 years at the time of signing the informed consent
- Male patients with severe (<1%) or moderate (<2%) hemophilia A
- History of a high titer (>5 BU) inhibitor
- Within 1 year of successful ITI, according to ISTH definitions (inhibitor titer <0.6 BU, recovery more than 60% of expected, and half-life of >6 hours). Successful ITI has been achieved with any FVIII concentrate.
- Currently on emicizumab or willing to alter their prophylaxis treatment to emicizumab per study protocol.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age >12 years at the time of signing the informed consent
- Partial tolerance (not meeting criteria for complete tolerance per ISTH)
- History of anti-drug antibodies to emicizumab
- Unwilling to receive exposure to intravenous FVIII concentrates.
- History per the investigator's discretion of non-compliance to prior therapy.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: Emicizumab + FVIII weekly
In addition to emicizumab prophylaxis,participants will receive non-prophylactic exposure to FVIII concentrates through weekly 50 IU/kg ±10% doses - the choice of FVIII concentrate is at the discretion of the PI.
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This study will evaluate the inhibitor recurrence with or without ongoing FVIII exposure in patients with hemophilia A on emicizumab prophylaxis after a successful immune tolerance induction.
This study will evaluate the inhibitor recurrence with or without ongoing FVIII exposure in patients with hemophilia A on emicizumab prophylaxis after a successful immune tolerance induction.
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Active Comparator: Emicizumab only
Participants will only receive emicizumab prophylaxis.
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This study will evaluate the inhibitor recurrence with or without ongoing FVIII exposure in patients with hemophilia A on emicizumab prophylaxis after a successful immune tolerance induction.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Inhibitor recurrence
Time Frame: The goal is to complete all study procedures in 2 years.
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FVIII inhibitor level will be checked on certain time points during the study.
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The goal is to complete all study procedures in 2 years.
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Guy Young, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Hemostasis and Thrombosis Center
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- CHLA-20-00189
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type
- STUDY_PROTOCOL
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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