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| Assiut University | OTHER |
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To the investigator's Knowledge this is the first study that will assess Treatment with thrombopoietin Mimetic plus immunosuppressiveTherapy in Egyptian Patients with Aplastic Anaemia.
Aim of the work :
Aplastic anemia (AA) is a bone marrow failure syndrome that, although benign in nature, it influences patients' quality of life and carries poor prognosis.The pathophysiological basis of development of acquired AA include immune-mediated attack, inherent hematopoietic stem cell insufficiency and telomere defects. Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is the only curative treatment for AA. Unfortunately it is unavailable for many patients due to lack of matched donors furthermore others are ineligible for BMT due to old age or co-morbid conditions. Immunosuppressive therapy was the mainstay of treatment for AA for many years, however many patients developed resistance or refractoriness. Immunosuppressive therapy was in the form of antithymocyte globulin (ATG) which gave hematologic response in nearly 50% of patients , adding cyclosporin A increases this response to 70%. Why some patients became resistant to immunosuppressive therapy ? The answer is not known.
Thrombopoietin mimetic (Eltrombopag) was firstly FDA approved for treatment of immune thrombocytopenic purpura. Numerous clinical trials proved the efficacy of anthropometric mimetic in patients with refractory severe AA, leading to its FDA approval for this group of patients. Some researchers proven the efficacy of thrombopoietin mimetic in patients with moderate aplastic anemia.
This study aimed to asses the combination of thrombopoietin mimetic and immunosuppressive therapy in patients with AA.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Thrombopoietin mimetic plus immunosuppressive therapy | Experimental | The intervention group will be given cyclosporin A plus thrombopoietin (TPO) mimetic starting with 50 mg orally daily that would be increased or decreased according to response, for 3-months. Patients will be kept on weekly follow up visits and assessed by peripheral hemogram . |
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| Immunosuppressive therapy | No Intervention | A comparative group will be collected retrospectively and treated with cyclosporin A alone as standard. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Combination of thrombopoietin mimetic and cyclosporin A | Drug | This is a controlled interventional study that will be carried out in the Clinical Hematology Unit, at the Department of Internal Medicine , Assiut University Hospital. Patients will be recruited among those who attending the outpatient clinic or admitted in the unit. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Number of patients with hematologjc response |
d) Bone marrow cellularity (time frame (2-3 months): increase bone marrow cellularity from baseline | 2-3months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Number of patients with one of the following |
| 2-3months |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Safinaz Hussien, MD | Assiut University | Study Director |
| Sawsan A Abdelaal, M.B.B.Ch | Assiut University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Assiut university hospital Internal Medicine Department Hematology and BMT Unit | Asyut | 71515 | Egypt |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 20858879 | Background | Scheinberg P, Cooper JN, Sloand EM, Wu CO, Calado RT, Young NS. Association of telomere length of peripheral blood leukocytes with hematopoietic relapse, malignant transformation, and survival in severe aplastic anemia. JAMA. 2010 Sep 22;304(12):1358-64. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.1376. | |
| 2017225 | Background | Frickhofen N, Kaltwasser JP, Schrezenmeier H, Raghavachar A, Vogt HG, Herrmann F, Freund M, Meusers P, Salama A, Heimpel H. Treatment of aplastic anemia with antilymphocyte globulin and methylprednisolone with or without cyclosporine. The German Aplastic Anemia Study Group. N Engl J Med. 1991 May 9;324(19):1297-304. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199105093241901. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D000741 | Anemia, Aplastic |
| ID | Term |
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| D000740 | Anemia |
| D006402 | Hematologic Diseases |
| D006425 | Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases |
| D000080983 | Bone Marrow Failure Disorders |
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| ID | Term |
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| D016572 | Cyclosporine |
| ID | Term |
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| D003524 | Cyclosporins |
| D010456 | Peptides, Cyclic |
| D047028 | Macrocyclic Compounds |
| D011083 | Polycyclic Compounds |
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Two groups of patients will be included one group will be treated with thrombopoietin mimetic and immunosuppressive therapy , another matched group treated with immunosuppressive therapy alone and enrolled retrospectively
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| 12393680 | Background | Frickhofen N, Heimpel H, Kaltwasser JP, Schrezenmeier H; German Aplastic Anemia Study Group. Antithymocyte globulin with or without cyclosporin A: 11-year follow-up of a randomized trial comparing treatments of aplastic anemia. Blood. 2003 Feb 15;101(4):1236-42. doi: 10.1182/blood-2002-04-1134. Epub 2002 Oct 10. |
| 12622583 | Background | Rosenfeld S, Follmann D, Nunez O, Young NS. Antithymocyte globulin and cyclosporine for severe aplastic anemia: association between hematologic response and long-term outcome. JAMA. 2003 Mar 5;289(9):1130-5. doi: 10.1001/jama.289.9.1130. |
| 19642221 | Background | Kuter DJ. Thrombopoietin and thrombopoietin mimetics in the treatment of thrombocytopenia. Annu Rev Med. 2009;60:193-206. doi: 10.1146/annurev.med.60.042307.181154. |
| 24345753 | Background | Desmond R, Townsley DM, Dumitriu B, Olnes MJ, Scheinberg P, Bevans M, Parikh AR, Broder K, Calvo KR, Wu CO, Young NS, Dunbar CE. Eltrombopag restores trilineage hematopoiesis in refractory severe aplastic anemia that can be sustained on discontinuation of drug. Blood. 2014 Mar 20;123(12):1818-25. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-10-534743. Epub 2013 Dec 17. |
| D001855 | Bone Marrow Diseases |
| D010455 |
| Peptides |
| D000602 | Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins |