Active clinical trials for "Anemia, Hemolytic, Congenital"

People with severe congenital anemias, such as sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia, have been cured with bone marrow transplantation (BMT). The procedure, however, is limited to children younger than the age of 16 because the risks are lower for children than for adults. The purpose of this study is to explore the use of a BMT regimen that, instead of chemotherapy, uses a low dose of radiation, combined with two immunosuppressive drugs. This type BMT procedure is described as nonmyeloablative, meaning that it does not destroy the patient s bone marrow. It is hoped that this type of BMT will be safe for patients normally excluded from the procedure because of their age and other reasons. To participate in this study, patients must be between the ages of 18 and 65 and have a sibling who is a well-matched stem-cell donor. Beyond the standard BMT protocol, study participants will undergo additional procedures. The donor will receive G-CSF by injection for five days; then his or her stem cells will be collected and frozen one month prior to BMT. Approximately one month later, the patient will be given two immune-suppressing drugs, Campath 1-H and Sirolimus, as well as a single low dose of total body irradiation and then the cells from the donor will be infused. Prior to their participation in this study, patients will undergo the following evaluations: a physical exam, blood work, breathing tests, heart-function tests, chest and sinus x-rays, and bone-marrow sampling. ...

Dehydrated stomatocytosis is a genetic disorder characterized by chronic hemolysis, variable anemia and erythrocyte dehydration. Causative mutations have been identified in either the Gardos (KCNN4) channel or the mechanosensitive channel PIEZO1. Senicapoc is a selective blocker of the Gardos channel that has been extensively studied in sickle cell disease and shown to be safe with limited side-effects. However, senicapoc did not meet the designated clinical endpoints in a pivotal phase 3 trial. The present study is an explanatory, proof-of-concept study of Senicapoc administered once daily in patients with familial dehydrated stomatocytosis caused by autosomal dominant V282 mutations in the Gardos (KCNN4) channel.

This study aims to answer the question whether daily oral vitamin D supplementation can reduce the risk of respiratory or lung complications in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease. Respiratory problems are the leading causes of sickness and of death in sickle cell disease. The investigators hypothesize that daily oral vitamin D3, compared to monthly oral vitamin D, will rapidly increase circulating vitamin D3, and reduce the rate of respiratory complications by 50% or more within the first year of supplementation in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease. This study is funded by the FDA Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD).

This cross-sectional prevalence assessment study involves a single blood draw in specific patient populations to assess for enzymatic and genomic evidence for acquired pyruvate kinase deficiency.

Hereditary stomatocytosis is a heterogeneous group of rare constitutional diseases of dominant transmission in the vast majority of cases. The data concerning their clinical and biological presentation, and their evolution are few, and come from about thirty clinical cases. The constitution of an exhaustive French cohort of hereditary stomatocytosis will improve the establishment of the diagnosis and the management of patients

Although many studies investigated the prevalence and manifestations of HPV-B19 infection in patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA), thalassemia, and hereditary spherocytosis (HS) separately, there is limited information about the extent to which HPV-B19 infection leads to severe complications and chronic infection.