Active clinical trials for "Hemophilia A"

Using whole blood samples and plasma samples obtained from some hemophilia A patients with inhibitors, the investigators will perform the coagulation assessment in the co-presence of aPCC and factor VIII by comprehensive coagulation assays and flow chamber analysis under blood flow conditions.

Primary objective: To assess the pharmacokinetics of Recombinant Human Coagulation Factor VIII-Fc fusion protein for Injection at two dose levels in patients with hemophilia A. Secondary objectives: To assess Safety and Tolerability by monitoring FVIII recovery and adverse events in patients with hemophilia A.

Life expectancy of hemophilia patients has improved considerably during the past decades and is approaching that of the general population. Hemophilia patients are therefore likely to be confronted with age-related disorders in addition to their primary illness and related diseases. Little is known about the occurrence of age-related co-morbidity, especially cardiovascular disease (CVD), in these patients. Low clotting factor levels are hypothesized to protect against both atherosclerosis and thrombus formation, resulting in a reduced risk of ischemic CVD. CVD mortality has been reported to be lower in haemophilia patients than in the general population, but data on non-fatal CVD are lacking, and no adjustment for CVD risk factors has been made so far. The aim of our study is to assess the occurrence of CVD and its risk factors in a large cohort of haemophilia patients. In this prospective multicenter cohort study in a group of 700-800 male patients with haemophilia A or B aged 30 years or older from The Netherlands and the UK, data on CVD history and CVD risk factors will be collected at baseline and compared with the general age-matched male population. Overall QRISK2 cardiovascular risk scores will be calculated and also compared with the general population. During a follow-up period of 5 and 10 years the occurrence of CVD events will be recorded and compared with the expected occurrence based on the QRISK2 scores and with data from the general population.

This is an randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the safety, tolerability and efficacy of MK-0518 compared to placebo when combined with other antiretroviral drugs, in treatment-experienced HIV-infected patients with hemophilia. Subjects enrolled in the study sign the consent form, then are randomly assigned to MK-0518 400 mg twice daily plus optimized background therapy (OBT) group or placebo plus OBT group.Each group concludes at least 50 subjects. For each patient, detection of HIV viral load and CD4+ T lymphocyte count is done at screening, and at weeks 4, 8, 12 and 24. The safety profile of MK-0518 is monitored according to patients' complaints and the results of physical and laboratory examinations. The safety and efficacy of MK-0518 400 mg b.i.d. compared to placebo, both in combination with OBT, will be assessed by review of the accumulated study data in HIV-infected patients with hemophilia.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance of different methods for measuring factor IX activity levels in haemophilia B patients treated with eftrenonacog-alfa and assess its pharmacodynamics (PD) in a real-life setting.

The goal of this study is to measure the TFPI plasma level, a molecule involved in the regulation of the coagulation system, in haemophilia patients. The second objective is to assess the effects of TFPI inhibition on thrombin generation. Indeed, there is sparse data on the physiological and pathological changes of TFPI levels in human and particularly in hemophilia patients. Yet, TFPI inhibitors may become one of the new by-passing treatments of haemophilia. Until now, published data mainly reports in vitro pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of TFPI inhibitors. Hence, in vivo effects of TFPI inhibition remain unclear, especially in haemophilia patients. The clinical development of such molecules requires a dedicated biological monitoring. Thrombin Generation Assay (TGA) in Poor Platelets Plasma (PPP) is a good candidate since it is sensitive to Factor VIII and Factor IX deficiencies as well as to TFPI. However, TGA results are very dependent on experimental conditions (i. e. Tissue Factor and phospholipids concentrations) and the relationship between TFPI plasma level and TGA parameters has not been studied yet. This study should provide with original data on TFPI plasma levels and the effect of TFPI on thrombin generation in haemophilia patients. This should help to define the monitoring of TFPI inhibitors in Haemophilia.

Hemophilia is a constitutional coagulation disorder responsible for a hemorrhagic phenotype in patients from an early age. Hemarthrosis is one of the most frequent complications in hemophiliacs and leads to the development of severe and early arthropathy, sometimes as early as childhood. To date, there is no curative treatment for these joint disorders and preventive treatments are insufficient to completely prevent joint degradation. Mesenchymal stem cells have been shown to be of therapeutic interest in the management of pathologies such as osteoarthritis and inflammatory arthritis through their anti-inflammatory, regenerative and anti-apoptotic effects. Hemophilic arthropathy is a separate condition at the border of these two diseases Our study aim to show pre-clinical interest of mesenchymal stem cell therapy in hemophilic arthropathy

Patients with hemophilia who have the same level of deficient factor(s) may express different severity of clinical presentation and bleeding tendency. Therefore a test which could determine overall hemostasis rather than simple concentration of a single deficient factor may correlate better with clinical phenotype in these patients. The investigators will therefore study the usefulness of global hemostatic methods (endogenous thrombin potential (ETP), overall hemostatic potential (OHP), fibrin clot structure) and microparticles in the prediction of severity of bleeding and estimation of response to the treatment in patients with hemophilia. Since hemophilia patients on prophylactic treatment virtually do not bleed, additional patients who are treated on demand only will be included enabling to study possible modulatory effects of different hemostatic factors (particularly prothrombotic and thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI)) on clinical presentation. The investigators will correlate both those factors and clinical severity with global hemostatic methods. The investigators expect to prove that individual tailoring of the treatment, which may enable lowering the prophylactic dose of factor concentrate without increasing the risk of bleeding, is justified in some hemophilia patients. This approach would reduce the amount of necessary factor concentrate in certain patients and decrease the cost (which represents extensive burden for health care systems) of treatment without potential risk for the patients.

This is an observational, prospective, longitudinal, multicenter, cohort study designed with the scope to verify whether or not TGA may predict effectiveness of different FVIII concentrates class (devoid or rich of VWF) in patient affected by severe or moderately severe inherited haemophilia A and inhibitors.

Severe haemophilia A and B (SHA, SHB) are X - linked inherited bleeding disorders, characterised by factor VIII and IX levels of <1 IU/dL respectively. The mainstay of treatment in SHA and SHB is replacement therapy with intravenous infusions of factor VIII and IX. However, there is significant variability in the bleeding phenotype within severe haemophiliacs with some presenting with minimal bleeding episodes even on less intensive treatment regimens. A significant contributor to inter-individual variability in the bleeding phenotype is the coagulation phenotype, but there are no established assays in routine clinical practice that can be used to quantify this. This study aims to study novel assays and characterise the observed phenotypic heterogeneity.