Active clinical trials for "Iron Overload"

This research is being done so that we can look at the safety and efficacy of deferiprone in people with sickle cell disease or other anemias. Deferiprone is a drug that removes iron from the body. We will be comparing deferiprone with deferoxamine, another drug that removes iron from the body.

The primary efficacy endpoint of this interventional study was to evaluate the number of patients achieving a complete response (CR), defined as patients switching from intensive deferasirox -DFO treatment, at any time point during the 24 months of study, to deferasirox monotherapy based on improvement in the cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) T2* value to >10ms, and continue to maintain their MRI T2* to values >10 msec.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate SSP-004184AQ in patients with transfusional iron overload whose primary diagnosis is hereditary or congenital anemia. SSP-004184AQ is an iron chelator under development for chronic daily oral administration to patients with transfusional iron overload.

The effects of iron overload and oxidative stress and dyslipidemia on glucose level and thyroid function in patients with abnormal hemoglobinopathy. 2- Evaluation of MDA level as a marker of oxidative stress.

This study is a Phase 2 multicenter, randomized, placebo controlled, single-blind study. The primary objective of the study is to compare the effect of weekly dosing of LJPC-401 (synthetic human hepcidin) versus placebo on transferrin saturation (TSAT) in an adult hereditary hemochromatosis patient population.

Primary objectives: • To evaluate the safety and efficacy of long-term orally administration of CN128 in thalassaemia patients with blood transfusion dependent and aged 16 and above. Design: The study is designed as a single arm and opened phase IIa clinical trial, so as to investigate the safety and efficacy of CN128. A total of 50 eligible subjects are planned to be enrolled, and orally administration of CN128 for 24 weeks or 48 weeks according to the administration plan. The treatment period is from day 0 to 24 weeks, and the extended treatment period was from 25 weeks to 48 weeks. Subjects' medication status, uncomfortable symptoms, concomitant medication or non-drug therapy were recorded daily. Subject inclusion criteria: Thalassemia patients. The number of blood transfusion per month ≥1. Or hemoglobin can not be maintained at 90g/L above, if blood transfusions is less than once per month. Serum ferritin ≥ 500 µg/L Patients aged 16 and above Volunteer for the trial and sign the informed consent. Subject exclusion criteria: Active hepatitis B (HBsAg positive, HBsAb negative) or hepatitis C (HCV antibody positive, detectable HCV RNA, and alanine transaminase (ALT) beyond normal range) Active gastrointestinal disease history (including: gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, stomach or esophageal varices, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, gastrointestinal cancer, familial genetic multiple intestinal polyps), and History of gastrointestinal perforation, gastrointestinal surgery that influence drug absorption, and other potential intestinal complications considered by researchers; ALT or Aspartate transaminase (AST) > 2.5 × Upper limit of normal (ULN), or serum creatinine > 1.5 × ULN; Neutropenia patient (neutrophil count < 1.5 × 109 / L); Active infection uncontrolled; The patients who are currently taking CYP3A strong inducer or strong inhibitor drugs, or the drug that may extend the QT interval, or the drug that may decrease neutrophil count, but can not temporarily interrupt the use of such drugs; Congenital long QT syndrome or known family history of long QT syndrome; QTc > 480 ms; clinically significant ventricular or atrial fast arrhythmia; etc. Usage: All subjects will be given the lower (10 mg/kg bw, bid) or higher dose (15 mg/kg bw, bid) for 24 or 48 weeks, according to the administration plan. Safety assessments: Safety evaluations include adverse events, adverse reactions, severe adverse events, and severe adverse reactions; growth; total and free testosterone in men, follicle-generating hormone and luteinizing hormonin in women; vital signs and electrocardiogram; hearing, laboratory test, urine pregnancy test (women of childbearing age), etc. Efficacy assessments: Efficacy evaluations include serum ferritin, liver iron content (MRI R2) and cardiac iron content (MRI T2*). Statistics: Subject characteristic distribution Demographic characteristics, general conditions, and baseline conditions (pre-treatment) of enrolled subjects were analyzed.The measurement data are described by means, standard deviation, minimum value and maximum value, while the qualitative data list frequency and percentage. Safety analysis Descriptive statistical analysis was used for safety endpoints. Effectiveness analysis Mean, standard deviation, median, minimum and maximum values were described and 95% confidence intervals were calculated. Paired T-test was used to compare each time point with the baseline if necessary. The 95% confidence interval was calculated by using Clopper-Pearson method for the proportion of patients.

In this 4-year extension study the safety, efficacy and and pharmacokinetics of deferasirox in regularly transfused pediatric patients with β-thalassemia major was assessed. Patients who successfully completed the main 1 year trial (NCT00390858) were eligible to continue in this extension trial and receive chelation therapy with deferasirox for up to 4 years.

A clinical trial designed to compare the safety and iron excretion properties of desferoxamine (DFO) and deferitrin (GT56-252), an experimental oral iron chelator.

To allow patients treated with deferasirox in the core study to continue iron chelation therapy for 2 years or until the drug became locally commercially available. To evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of deferasirox by measuring treatment success, change in liver iron content (LIC) and change in serum ferritin levels. Safety was mainly assessed by incidence of adverse events (AEs)and clinically significant lab parameters.

This study uses a single arm, multi-center, open-label trial design. The study will assess the efficacy and safety of 52 weeks of treatment with deferasirox (ICL670) in patients with evidence of transfusion induced iron overload.