Active clinical trials for "Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic"

The purpose of this study is to describe the effect of anti-D on symptoms and platelet count in children suffering from unexplainable low platelet counts, when anti-D is administered as an injection under the skin. The hypothesis is that the injection with anti-D under the skin is as effective as anti-D given in a vein.

Platelets are particles found along with red and white blood cells in the blood that play a role in the process of blood clotting. Disorders affecting the platelets can lower the amount of platelets in the blood and put patients at risk of bleeding. The condition of low platelets is referred to as thrombocytopenia. Thrombocytopenia can be associated with a variety of diseases including cancer, leukemia, tuberculosis, or as a result of an autoimmune reaction. Autoimmune reactions are disorders in which the normal immune system begins attacking itself. Autoimmune thrombocytopenia (AITP) is a disorder of low blood platelet counts in which platelets are destroyed by antibodies produced by the immune system. Unfortunately, many patients with AITP do not respond to standard treatments for thrombocytopenia. Cyclophosphamide is a drug that works to suppress the activity of the immune system. Researchers believe that combining this drug with transplanted rescued blood stem cells may provide effective treatment for AITP. The purpose of this study is to explore the affordability and safety of this therapy for the treatment of AITP. The effectiveness of the therapy will be measured by the number of patients whose platelet levels rise greater than 100,000/m3. If this treatment approach appears affordable, this study will form the basis for a larger study to compare alternate treatment approaches.

The primary objective of the study is to check if an subcutaneous (sc) infusion of UCB7665 is safe and tolerated in subjects with primary immune thrombocytopenia.

In this study we want to investigate if combination therapy with rituximab (R) + dexamethasone (DXM) is superior to monotherapy with DXM in patients with newly diagnosed idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Before treatment molecular studies - gene expression profiling - are performed to characterize at the molecular level those patients responding adequately to the treatment as compared to those obtaining a minor or no responses. The hypothesis is that combination therapy is superior to monotherapy as defined above. Using gene expression studies up-front the hypothesis is that this method may be able to predict the response to treatment.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relative bioavailability (BA) of two lots of E5501 40 mg tablets administered twice as single oral doses to healthy subjects.

It is known that intravenous immunoglobulins can induce hemolysis, but the mechanism is not known in detail. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the specificity of antigens on red blood cells in patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) who have shown signs of clinically relevant hemolysis following treatment with the intravenous immunoglobin Privigen®. The study was to explore potential mechanisms of hemolysis by analysis of the specificity of the antibodies possibly involved. To distinguish between clinically non-relevant hemolysis and a relevant intravascular hemolysis, an independent adjudication by a committee was performed for each patient with signs of hemolysis determined in the laboratory or in the clinic. This study was requested as a post-marketing commitment study by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). By September 2014, no case of clinically significant intravascular hemolysis was found, and the FDA agreed to halt the study and analyze all hemolysis-relevant endpoints using FDA criteria for hemolysis in addition to analyses planned in the protocol. The study was not restarted.

This is a study in healthy subjects. There are two parts to the study. In the first part of the study each subject will receive a single 10mg dose of each of the four formulations of E550. Based on the results from Part 1, an optimal formulation will be selected for further evaluation in Part 2.

36 healthy adult men and women will be enrolled with the goal of having 24 subjects complete the entire study. The study will consist of a pre-treatment phase and a treatment phase. The pre-treatment phase will include screening and baseline period 1. The treatment phase consists of 4 treatment period: Treatment Period 1 - administration of the first E5501 oral dose; Treatment Period 2 - administration of verapamil and the second E5501 oral dose; Treatment Period 3 - administration of the third E5501 dose; Treatment Period 4 - concomitant administration of cyclosporine and the fourth E5501 dose. A baseline period will precede each treatment period. The screening period will be up to 13 days in duration. After fulfilling screening requirements, subjects will check into the clinic on Day -1 for baseline assessments. They will be domiciled in the clinical testing facility for 6 days for Treatment Periods 1, 3, and 4 and will return intermittently for study procedures for 8 outpatient visits. They will be domiciled in the clinical testing facility for at least 14 days for Treatment Period 2 and will return intermittently for study procedures for 7 outpatient visits.

A multicentre, randomised, double-blind,4-stages phase III study enrolled 414 patients with chronic, previously treated ITP. Dosage could be adjusted (2.5~.75 mg/day) to maintain platelet counts 50~250×109/L

OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the response rate and response duration to rituximab in patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura. II. Evaluate the toxicity associated with this treatment regimen in these patients. III. Evaluate the alteration in antiplatelet antibody with this treatment regimen in these patients.