BEGIN Novel ImagiNG Biomarkers (BEGINNING)

To determine the treatment effect of triple-combination therapy in 6-8 year olds after presumed FDA approval, using rapid structural and functional pulmonary and abdominal MRI (UTE and 129Xe).

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Cystic Fibrosis
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: 129Xe

Detailed Description

The overall hypothesis is that multi-organ MRI will provide more sensitive, robust outcome measures in young CF patients than traditional measures employed in the BEGIN study and that these novel measures will be more sensitive to treatment effects, tested here by comparison before and after triple-combination modulator therapy. By understanding the nature of early lung obstruction and characteristic changes in the liver and pancreas over time, we continue to lay the groundwork for more personalized medicine in the future.

Assessing treatment response and clinical benefit in children with CF who are clinically normal per standard outcomes (e.g., spirometry, pancreatic function) will become paramount as triplecombination therapy is extended to younger patients with milder CF clinical presentation than their historic peers. Here the sensitivity and profile free of ionizing-radiation exposure of MRI can be leveraged to follow an individual with CF over time to quantify changes with therapy-with additional spatial resolution unavailable from standard clinical testing.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 44
• Phase: Phase 4

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Carrie Stevens, BS; Phone Number: (513) 636-9973; Email: carrie.stevens@cchmc.org
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Penny New, BS; Phone Number: (513) 636-9973; Email: Penny.New@cchmc.org

Study Locations

• United States
  • Kansas
    • Kansas City, Kansas, United States, 66160
      • Active, not recruiting
      • University of Kansas Medical Center
  • Ohio
    • Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229
      • Active, not recruiting
      • Carrie Stevens
  • Virginia
    • Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 22903
      • Recruiting
      • University of Virginia
      • Contact: Jamie Mata
      • Principal Investigator: Jamie Mata
      • Principal Investigator: Deborah Froh

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 6 years to 8 years (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Written informed consent (and assent where appropriate) obtained from the subject or subject's legal representative.
2. Willingness to adhere to the study-visit schedule and other protocol requirements.
3. Ages 6-8 years old at baseline MRI visit (may be enrolled up to 60 days before 6th birthday).

4. Documentation of CF diagnosis as evidenced by one or more clinical features consistent with the CF phenotype and one or more of the following criteria:

   1. Sweat chloride equal to or greater than 60 mEq/liter by quantitative pilocarpine iontophoresis test
   2. Two well-characterized mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene
5. Physician intent to prescribe triple-combination therapy
6. Clinically-stable with no respiratory tract infection at the time of enrollment.
7. No change in chronic maintenance therapies in the 28 days prior to enrollment.
8. Ability to cooperate with MRI procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Individuals currently on ivacaftor therapy (including Kalydeco, Orkambi, and Symdeko) and with at least one gating mutation. Gating mutations include G551D, G178R, S549N, S549R, G551S, G970R, G1244E, S1251N, S1255P, or G1349D.
2. Acute respiratory symptoms (e.g. wheezing) at the time of the MRI.
3. Acute respiratory infection, defined as increased cough, wheezing or respiratory rate in the 28 days prior to enrollment.
4. Chronic lung disease not related to CF
5. Chronic liver disease not related to CF
6. Acute pancreatitis, defined by clinical criteria (45).
7. Chronic pancreatic disease not related to CF.
8. Physical findings that would compromise the safety of the subject or the quality of the study data as determined at the discretion of the site investigator.
9. Any other condition that, in the opinion of the Site Investigator/designee, would preclude informed consent or assent, make study participation unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving the study objectives.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Pre Trikafta; 129Xe MRI	Drug: 129Xe; Rapid spatial mapping of lung, liver, and pancreatic structure and function is now possible with a combination of hyperpolarized 129Xe and traditional proton MRI, all absent sedation and ionizing radiation.
Experimental: Post Trikafta; 129Xe MRI	Drug: 129Xe; Rapid spatial mapping of lung, liver, and pancreatic structure and function is now possible with a combination of hyperpolarized 129Xe and traditional proton MRI, all absent sedation and ionizing radiation.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Ventilation Defect Percentage change from baseline	For pulmonary MRI, the primary outcome measure is the change in 129Xe ventilation defect percentage (VDP) from pre-therapy baseline to the one-year follow-up visit.	1 year
Pancreas volume	For pancreatic MRI, the primary outcome measure is change in pancreas volume normalized to BSA between pre-therapy baseline and one-year follow-up visit.	1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Abdominal T1 values	Changes in MRI T1 average in the liver and pancreas, from baseline to follow up at 1 year	1 year
Lung reader score	Changes in reader score for visible structural defects from proton MRI, from baseline to follow up at 1 year	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
• Collaborators: University of Iowa; University of Virginia; University of Kansas
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Jason Woods, PhD, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 1, 2022
• Primary Completion (Estimated): November 1, 2028
• Study Completion (Estimated): November 1, 2028

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 6, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 24, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): August 26, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): November 21, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 19, 2024
• Last Verified: November 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Genetic Diseases, Inborn; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Digestive System Diseases; Lung Diseases; Infant, Newborn, Diseases; Pancreatic Diseases; Cystic Fibrosis
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2021-0325

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No