Active clinical trials for "Purpura, Thrombocytopenic"

Immune thrombocytopenia is an acquired autoimmune disease, in which platelets are opsonized by auto-antibodies and destroyed by phagocytic cells .Genetic polymorphisms in the immune mediators have been suggested to play a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of many autoimmune disorders . Several genetic polymorphisms of the immune system genes have been described in ITP such as interleukins, tumor necrosis factors (TNF) alpha and beta, and interferon-gamma., These polymorphisms were found to be associated with an increased risk of ITP progression or exacerbation .CD40 is a co-stimulatory 4348 kDa glycoprotein molecule composed of 277 amino acid residues which belongs to the tumor necrosis family. It is encoded by a gene which is located at chromosome 20q11-13, expressed mainly on antigen presenting cells (APCs), some non-immune cells and tumors.Antinuclear antibodies (ANA) is a collective term for a large and heterogeneous group of circulating autoantibody. Reflecting their clinical importance, ANA are diagnostic, prognostic or classification criteria for many autoimmune diseases.

REPTT is an observational, prospective, multi-country, multicentre and non-interventional registry in which at least 300 patients with Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) in Spain and Portugal will be evaluated. The study will be carried out in the context of the usual clinical practice conditions, not imposing restrictions on the participating physician or influencing their normal clinical practice.

This study will assess the ability of eltrombopag to induce sustained response off treatment in ITP subjects who relapsed or failed to respond to an initial treatment with steroids. There is limited, mainly retrospective evidence that earlier use of eltrombopag after ITP diagnosis, will allow a larger proportion of subjects to achieve sustained response off treatment after tapering off drug. Clinically there is a need for a less toxic regimen that will provide responses and sustained response off treatment with a shorter treatment interval. This trial is designed to assess this.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether fostamatinib is safe and effective in the treatment of persistent/chronic Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP).

The purpose of this study is to determine whether fostamatinib is safe and effective in treating patients with persistent/chronic Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) over a 5 year period.

This randomized, double-blind and open-label phase III study aimed to determine the efficacy, tolerance and safety of eltrombopag in Chinese chronic primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) adult subjects. This study was be conducted in Chinese adult chronic ITP subjects who had not responded to or had relapsed after previous treatment of ITP, including first line therapy and /or splenectomy. The primary objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of oral eltrombopag as a thrombopoietic agent treating previously treated chronic Chinese ITP patients compared to placebo. The secondary objective was to assess the safety and tolerability of eltrombopag when administered for 6 weeks to previously treated adult chronic ITP patients compared with placebo. In addition, the long-term efficacy and safety of eltrombopag treatment was also evaluated in the 24-week extension open-label phase after the double-blind phase as one of other study objectives. If the subject benefited from the eltrombopag treatment based on the investigator's discretion, the subject could continue on eltrombopag treatment until the commercial launch of eltrombopag in China. Furthermore, to understand the pharmacokinetics (PK) profile of eltrombopag and to explore the relationship between the PK and pharmacodynamics (PD) (platelet response), a PK/PD analysis was embedded in this phase III study and conducted in the same patient population who participated this phase III study.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether eradication of Helicobacter pylori infection is effective in the improvement of platelet counts in children and adolescents with chronic ITP.

This will be a randomized, open-label, four-group, two-period, replicate design study to evaluate the effect of food on within and between subject variability in second generation formulation 20-mg tablet strengths, Lots P01008ZZA and P01009ZZA, administered as single doses of 40mg to 84 healthy male and female subjects. The study is powered to detect both a reduction in either the within or between subject variability (coefficient of variation [CV]%) of approximately 35%.

To determine if GAMMAPLEX raises the platelet count of subjects with chronic ITP to a threshold of 50 x 109/L, similar to that of published response >60%. Also to assess the safety of GAMMAPLEX and determine if platelet counts are maintained at 50 x 109/L in subjects with chronic ITP for.

Treatment for patients with autoimmune destruction of blood cells is poor. The part of the body that fights infections is called the immune system and white blood cells (WBCs) are part of the immune system. Normally, a person's body creates WBCs to fight infections and eliminates WBCs which have stopped helping the body function. Patients with autoimmune destruction of blood cells have difficulty eliminating old WBCs. The abnormal WBCs build up and can damage other healthy cells, which can lead to anemia, fatigue, jaundice, internal bleeding, infection, and cancer. Few effective medications exist for treatment for patients with autoimmune cytopenias and those commonly used are fraught with side effects. Nevertheless, as scientific understanding of autoimmune diseases has improved, more directed and less toxic therapies are becoming available. A number of groups have been studying the efficacy of a medication called sirolimus in patients with autoimmune diseases. This medicine has been FDA-approved for over 20 years. Sirolimus is a medicine used in children with other diseases. Sirolimus works, in part, by eliminating old and abnormal WBCs. Our group and others have shown that sirolimus is effective in mice with autoimmunity and in children with a rare condition called Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS). We believe sirolimus will help children with autoimmune cytopenias. We believe it will improve their symptoms and make them less sick. We propose to study sirolimus in children with chronic and/or refractory autoimmune cytopenias.