A Phase 3 Study to Evaluate the Place of Budesonide in the Treatment of GVHD
试验速览
- 阶段
- 3 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 24
- 试验地点
- 1
研究概览
简要总结
Twenty-four (2 x 12) patients with intestinal graft versus host disease (GVHD) Grades 2, 3 or 4 will be treated with budesonide 3mg three times daily or placebo for 12 weeks. All of the patients will receive cyclosporine and by mouth (po) prednisone or intravenous (IV) methylprednisone with a starting dose of 2mg/kg/day (standard anti-GVHD treatment). Doses of steroids will be decreased by approximately 10% or 10mg per week (depending upon patient's weight) upon response to therapy, defined as a decrease of volume of diarrhea by 50% per day, decrease in abdominal pain and no presence of bloody stool. Patients with Grades 3 or 4 will be withdrawn from the study if there is no response after one week of therapy. Patients with Grade 2 may continue with no decrease in prednisone dose until response is achieved.
详细描述
Graft versus host disease (GVHD) is one of the most common complications of bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Targets of GVHD are the gastro-intestinal tract (GIT) liver and skin, causing severe diarrhea and mucosal aberration and hepatitis that can cause life threatening liver failure. As a result of the mucosal aberration and the general immuno-suppression, caused both by the GVHD process itself and by the anti GVHD therapy, these patients are highly susceptible for severe, life threatening infections that usually originate from the GIT. Systemic steroids are the backbone of anti GVHD therapy. However, in GVHD systemic steroids have to be administered for a prolonged duration and in high doses, thus causing prolonged immune suppression, and exposing the patients to steroid side effects such as hypertension, diabetes, cataract formation etc.
Budesonide is a steroid that combines topical anti-inflammatory activity with high first-pass hepatic extraction. It was shown to be effective in treatment of inflammatory bowel disease with results slightly less then systemic steroids and fewer steroid-related adverse reactions. Except for its influence on the gut, budesonide was also shown to benefit inflammatory hepatic conditions such as primary biliary cirrhosis, liver transplantation and autoimmune hepatitis. Recently, it has been shown that budesonide is an effective treatment in acute GIT GVHD. The investigators propose to evaluate the effect of budesonide in GIT and hepatic GVHD with the following study.
Patients:
Twelve patients after allogenic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) with grade >= 2 GIT and/or hepatic GVHD will be prospectively compared to 12 placebo controls.
Inclusion Criteria:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 70 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients with clinical and biopsy proven Grades 2, 3 or 4 intestinal GVHD
- •Patients with a negative stool culture
- •Male or female patients aged between 18 - 70 years
- •Signed written informed consent of the patient
排除标准
- •Uncertain GVHD diagnosis (other causes of intestinal disease are possible)
- •Severe other disease which may influence the patient prognosis
- •Contraindication to the use of steroids
- •Patient's inability to swallow the study medications
- •Concurrent use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)
- •Known spontaneous or iatrogenic disturbances of thrombocyte aggregation or blood clotting.
- •Kidney dysfunction with creatinine level higher than 2mg/dl
- •Patients on preventative antimicrobial therapy with the exception of Resprim® (sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim)
- •Patients taking somatostatin
- •Patients taking anti-GVHD medication with the exception of steroids (maximum dose of prednisone or methylprednisolone 2mg/kg/day) and cyclosporine A or tacrolimus
- •Pregnancy or lactation
- •Insufficient contraception protection
- •Participation in another clinical study within the last 30 days.
- •Mental condition rendering the patient unable to understand the nature or scope and possible consequences of the study and/or evidence of an uncooperative attitude.