Active clinical trials for "Anemia"

NOTE: This is a research study and is not meant to be a substitute for clinical genetic testing. Families may never receive results from the study or may receive results many years from the time they enroll. If you are interested in clinical testing please consider seeing a local genetic counselor or other genetics professional. If you have already had clinical genetic testing and meet eligibility criteria for this study as shown in the Eligibility Section, you may enroll regardless of the results of your clinical genetic testing. While it is well recognized that hereditary factors contribute to the development of a subset of human cancers, the cause for many cancers remains unknown. The application of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has expanded knowledge in the field of hereditary cancer predisposition. Currently, more than 100 cancer predisposing genes have been identified, and it is now estimated that approximately 10% of all cancer patients have an underlying genetic predisposition. The purpose of this protocol is to identify novel cancer predisposing genes and/or genetic variants. For this study, the investigators will establish a Data Registry linked to a Repository of biological samples. Health information, blood samples and occasionally leftover tumor samples will be collected from individuals with familial cancer. The investigators will use NGS approaches to find changes in genes that may be important in the development of familial cancer. The information gained from this study may provide new and better ways to diagnose and care for people with hereditary cancer. PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Establish a registry of families with clustering of cancer in which clinical data are linked to a repository of cryopreserved blood cells, germline DNA, and tumor tissues from the proband and other family members. SECONDARY OBJECTIVE: Identify novel cancer predisposing genes and/or genetic variants in families with clustering of cancer for which the underlying genetic basis is unknown.

The aim of the study is to examine the effects of anemia correction with intravenous administered iron on clinical outcomes and the immune response on the tumor in patients with planned colonic- or rectal cancer surgery. The study will be performed as a retrospective propensity score-matched cohort study with an examination of immune response in tumor and clinical outcomes, between patients with anemia without correction with iron(III)isomaltoside, non-anemic patients, and anemic patients treated with iron(III)isomaltoside prior to surgery. Propensity score matching will ensure identification of controls from a pool of patients treated at the Department of Surgery, Zealand University Hospital. The two control groups will be: an anemic historical control group (group 1), and a non-anemic concurrent control group (group 2). Group 3 will be the treatment group, with patients with anemia and treated with iron(III)isomaltoside. The study period of cases undergoing i.v. treatment will be 1st of February 2017 to 31st of October 2019 with approximately 70 cases included

Anaemia is a risk factor for functional decline and frailty in older adults including decreased physical performance and muscle strength, increased hospitalisation risk and mortality, falls, and poorer recovery from activities of daily living. Despite a major gap in human studies, research in animals has demonstrated an interrelationship between iron deficiency anaemia and deteriorated functional capacity and physical performance particularly in older adults. Iron deficiency and associated anaemia is a frequent accompanier of debilitating chronic diseases such as heart failure and chronic lung diseases. These conditions, more commonly seen in older patients, are strongly linked to deterioration in physical function, reduced skeletal muscle mass and quality, frailty, and poor quality of life. Exercise intolerance is also a common feature of these conditions as iron deficiency impairs the capacity of carrying oxygen leading to inability to sustain physical activities. Furthermore, the age-related decline in the muscle mass and quality (so called sarcopenia) and associated frailty has rapidly become a major health concern in the older adults particularly when accompanied by other chronic diseases. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in exploring the role of iron as a causative factor in the development of sarcopenia and related frailty. In summary, there is a substantial gap of evidence whether Iron repletion leads to meaningful enhancements in the skeletal muscle function and physical performance in older adults suffering from iron deficiency anaemia. This study will investigate the impact of a standard care intervention (intravenous iron therapy) on muscular function and physical performance in older patients through a range of laboratory assessments.

This is a trial with an observational and an interventional arm, in patients with moderate to severe anemia and control subjects. The main purposes of this study is to phenotype the scope of neurocognitive deficits from iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in adult women, determine derangements in cerebral perfusion, vascular reactivity, functional connectivity, and blood brain barrier permeability in adult-onset IDA and relate them to neurocognitive deficits, as well as determine the reversibility and durability of both the physiologic and neurocognitive derangements by iron replacement therapy. All eligible subjects will be asked to provide informed consent before participating in the study.

Outcomes for patients with severe aplastic anemia (SAA) who are refractory to first-line immunosuppressive therapy (IST) and who lack a matched unrelated donor (MUD) remain poor. Recently, the use of eltrombopag (ELT) has shown blood count improvements in 40% of these patients. However, most refractory patients do not respond to ELT or other second-line treatment and are therefore exposed to life-threatening infections, and bleeding. During the past 2 decades, there has been a significant decrease in infection-related mortality in patients with SAA unresponsive to initial IST but clonal evolution including paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) still occur in the long-term with a grim prognosis. Overall, the overall survival of such patients with acquired refractory SAA to ELT is about 60-70% at 2 years. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) using alternative donor sources (i.e., mismatched unrelated donors, cord blood (CBT), and haplo-identical family donors) may be curative in patients with refractory SAA, despite carrying much higher rates of complications than in transplantations from matched related or unrelated donors. Recently, our group showed that CBT is a valuable curative option for young adults with refractory SAA. However, not all patients have available CB and CBT treatment related mortality is high in adult patients. Haploidentical (haplo) related donor Stem Cell Transplantation (haplo-SCT) have improved dramatically outcomes using T-cell replete grafts with administration of post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (PTCy). Preliminary results in a little number of patients with refractory SAA at Kings college (London, UK) and John Hopkins (Baltimore, USA) seem promising. The investigators retrospectively analyzed data from 36 patients (median age 42 years) transplanted between 2010 and 2017 in Europe on behalf of the SAA working party of the European Blood and Marrow Transplantation group. The 1-year overall survival was about 80% suggesting that this approach might be a valid option in this particular poor clinical situation. The main objective of this study is to demonstrate a benefit in term of the 2-year overall survival rate from 60% (historical rates in patients with acquired refractory idiopathic aplastic anemia) up to 80% using haplo-SCT with PTCy.

This is a human subject research study conducted in patients undergoing dialysis treatment with darbepoetin alfa at Intermountain Utah Dialysis and Intermountain Medical Center Dialysis Services. The purpose is to test a dose recommendation algorithm that may reduce hemoglobin variability and drug cost.

Pediatric patients with idiopathic aplastic anemia (AA) respond better than adults to immunosuppressive therapy (IST) but the long-term risks of relapse, ciclosporine dependence, and clonal evolution are high. UK investigators reported a 5-year estimated failure-free survival (FFS) after IST of 13.3%. In contrast, in 44 successive children who received a matched unrelated donor (MUD), hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), there was an excellent estimated 5-year FFS of 95%. Forty of these children had previously failed IST. Because of those excellent results, up-front fully matched unrelated donor (MUD) hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) became an attractive first-line option. In 2005 to 2014, a UK cohort of 29 children with idiopathic AA thus received MUD HSCTs as first-line therapy (they did not receive IST prior to HSCT). Results were excellent, with low Graft versus Host Disease rates and only 1 death (idiopathic pneumonia). This cohort was then compared with historical matched controls, transplanted or not. Outcomes for the up-front unrelated cohort HSCT were similar to Matched Related Donor HSCT and superior to IST and unrelated HSCT post-IST failure. Since then, many investigators are offering up-front MUD HSCT in pediatric patients worldwide. However, those results should be treated with extreme caution: 1) the design is retrospective; 2) the excellent up-front MUD HSCT may arise from the use of alemtuzumab in the conditioning regimen (alemtuzumab is not easily available worldwide) and 3) there was no formal quality-of-life assessment. Moreover, this strategy is highly dependent on donor identification (Caucasian patients have the highest likelihood of having a MUD) and donor not eventually receive HSCT because of the risk of infections/complications caused by unexpected donor delays or cancellation. Prospective trials are thus urgently needed to address the feasibility of such procedure, in term of timing (delay to offer MUD HSCT) and conditioning regimen (nothing is known of the use of other regimens, non alemtuzumab-based, in this setting). The main objective of this Two-Stage Phase 2 multicenter study is to realize up-front HSCT within 2 months once a MUD has been identified.

The objectives of this study are to assess safety and to evaluate the biologic activity of TARGTEPO treatment in Peritoneal Dialysis patients

The goal of this study is to see if the study therapy can decrease the chemotherapy-related side effects while maximizing the effectiveness of disease control. The physicians will also be studying the effect of removing T-cells from the donor"s stem cells before transplant. T-cells are a type of white blood cell that may help cause a serious side effect of transplant called Graft versus Host Disease (GVHD). The way it removes the T-cells from the donor stem cells is actually by selecting only the stem cells (called CD34 cells) by using a device called CliniMACS. This process is called CD34 selection. The CliniMACS® device is currently under the supervision of the FDA .

This is an explorative, open-label, uncontrolled, single center study to explore the preliminary safety, tolerability and efficacy of oral ferric maltol in treating iron deficiency in patients with pulmonary hypertension and iron deficiency anemia.