Efficacy and Safety of Levocetirizine Alone or in Combination With Tranexamic Acid in the Treatment of Spontaneous Chronic Urticaria. Multicentric Controlled Randomized Study in Cross-over, Double-blind
试验速览
- 阶段
- 4 期
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 80
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Tolerance of the association tranexamic acid and levocetirizine
研究概览
简要总结
Spontaneous chronic urticaria (UCS) is a disease that affects 1% of the general population with a potentially severe impact on quality of life. Most patients respond favorably to long-term antihistamine treatment, but sometimes it is necessary to give a high dose (4 times the formal dose, Berlin consensus 2016). These high doses are often accompanied by side effects requiring cessation of treatment. The therapeutic alternative is then omalizumab, an expensive biotherapy. UCS is secondary to non-specific mast cell activation. It has been shown to be associated with activation of fibrinolysis that correlates with the severity of symptoms. Patients with UCS resistant to levocetirizine were shown to have higher D-dimer levels than patients who responded to antihistamines. Tranexamic acid is a molecule with antifibrinolytic propertiesSeveral cases of severe chronic urticaria responding favorably to treatment with tranexamic acid have been reported. In our department, Investigators also noticed the improvement of some of their patients on tranexamic acid. The combination of these two treatments appears to be synergistic: action on histamine receptors and control of fibrinolysis.
The investigators propose to evaluate the association of tranexamic acid and levocetirizine for the treatment of chronic spontaneous urticaria.
详细描述
Multicentric controlled randomized crossover study, double-blind To evaluate the efficacy and safety of levocetirizine 10mg / day + tranexamic acid (AT) 2g / day versus levocetirizine 20mg / day alone in the chronic treatment of chronic urticaria evaluated at 4 weeks.
A hierarchical analysis will be implemented in the following order:
- Non-inferiority of the combination levocetirizine 10 mg / day + tranexamic acid (TA) 2 g / day versus levocetirizine alone 20 mg / day in terms of effectiveness
- Superiority of the combination levocetirizine 10 mg / day + tranexamic acid (AT) 2 g / day versus levocetirizine alone 20 mg / day in terms of tolerance
- Superiority of levocetirizine 10mg / day + tranexamic acid (AT) 2g / day versus levocetirizine alone 20mg / day in terms of effectiveness Each objective will be tested sequentially if and only if the previous objective is validated.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Investigator)
盲法说明
Double blind
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients with spontaneous chronic urticaria, according to the criteria of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) in agreement with the European Dermatology Forum (EDF), and the World Allergy Organization (WAO), corresponding to an association of the following symptoms : urticarial eruptions and / or recurrent angioedema for at least 6 weeks
排除标准
- •Urticaria associated with a specific systemic disease including cutaneous and systemic mastocytosis, urticarial vasculitis, autoinflammatory diseases associated with cryopyrin
- •Bradykinin angioedema and isolated angioedema whose origin is not clearly attributable to spontaneous chronic urticaria.
- •Presence of a contraindication to tranexamic acid and to levocetirizine
研究组 & 干预措施
Association drugs
levocetirizine 10mg/day + tranexamic acid (AT) 2g/day for a month
干预措施: association of levocetirizine and tranexamic acid (Drug)
one drug
Levocetirizine 20 mg/day for a month
干预措施: Levocetirizine only (Drug)
结局指标
主要结局
Tolerance of the association tranexamic acid and levocetirizine
时间窗: 28 days
Number of adverse events
Evolution of the Urticaria Activity Score 7 (UAS7)
时间窗: 28 days
Evolution of the UAS7 score between the beginning (J0) and the end (J28) of the treatment period. To calculate the score, the patient rates the number of papules and itching intensity from 0 to 3 daily for 7 days. 0 corresponds to no papules and no itching, 3 corresponds to more than 50 papules per 24h and intense itching that can cause daily life. This makes a score of 0 to 6 per day accumulated over 7 days, ranging from 0 to 42.
次要结局
- To demonstrate the non-inferiority of levocetirizine 10mg / day + tranexamic acid (AT) 2g / day versus levocetirizine alone 20mg / day in terms of efficacy on the Angioedema Activity Score (AAS)(28 days)
- Clinical characteristics of responders(28 days)