Active clinical trials for "beta-Thalassemia"

This study will evaluate the use of reduced intensity conditioning regimen in patients with high risk hemoglobinopathy Sickle Cell and B-Thalassemia Major in combination with standard immunosuppressive medications, followed by a routine stem cell transplant in order to assess whether or not it is as effective as myeloablative high dose chemotherapy and transplant.

Study A536-06 is an open-label extension study for patients previously enrolled in study A536-04 (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT01749540), to evaluate the long-term safety and tolerability of ACE-536 in adult patients with beta-thalassemia.

This is a single-arm, multi-site, single-dose, Phase 1/2 study to assess ST-400 in 6 subjects with transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia (TDT) who are ≥18 and ≤40 years of age. ST-400 is a type of investigational therapy that consists of gene edited cells. ST-400 is composed of the patient's own blood stem cells which are genetically modified in the laboratory using Sangamo's zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) technology to disrupt a precise and specific sequence of the enhancer of the BCL11A gene (which normally suppresses fetal hemoglobin production in erythrocytes). This process is intended to boost fetal hemoglobin (HbF), which can substitute for reduced or absent adult (defective) hemoglobin. ST-400 is then infused back into the patient after receiving conditioning chemotherapy to make room for the new cells in the bone marrow, with the aim of producing new erythrocytes with increased amounts of HbF. The primary objective is to understand safety and tolerability of ST-400, and secondary objectives are to assess the effects on HbF levels and transfusion requirements.

The accumulation of unpaired α-globin chains in β-thalassemia major patients may clinically create ineffective erythropoiesis, hemolysis, and chronic anemia. Multiple blood transfusions and iron overload cause cellular oxidative damage. However, α-tocopherol, an antioxidant, has been known as a potent scavenger of lipid radicals in the red cell membrane of β-thalassemia major patient. By this randomized controlled trial, the investigators would like to evaluate the effects of α-tocopherol in hemolysis and oxidative stress on the red cell membrane of β-thalassemia major.

Beta-thalassemia represents a group of recessive inherited hemoglobin disorders characterized by reduced synthesis of β-globin chain. The homozygous state (β-thalassemia major) "TM" results in severe anemia, which needs regular blood transfusion . The life expectancy in patients with TM has increased due to therapeutically management, such as frequent transfusion, desferal administration and bone marrow transplantation. Diabetes is clinically characterized by hyperglycemia due to either low circulating concentrations of, or decreased sensitivity to, insulin. Patients with TM typically exhibit β-cell or insulin insufficiency, and may develop diabetes due to toxic levels of iron in their pancreas, one of the strongest predictors of β-cell destruction. By contrast, hyperinsulinemia, secondary to insulin resistance, with normal glucose tolerance has also been observed. The pathogenic mechanisms leading from siderosis to diabetes are poorly understood.

The purpose of this observational study is to assess the real-world safety of luspatercept in Korean participants with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or beta thalassemia. Investigators will enroll participants who will begin treatment with at least 1 dose of luspatercept.

Patients with severe thalassemia (thalassemia major) present with severe anemia that required life-long transfusion therapy, spleen enlargement that led to increased transfusion requirement, and other serious complications as early death, growth retardation, bone deformations and iron overload due to blood transfusions. Splenectomy can significantly reduce transfusion requirement in thalassemia patients, but it is associated with an increased risk of serious complications such as sepsis and thrombosis. Preliminary preclinical and clinical data suggested that JAK2 inhibition, by reducing spleen size, could improve hemoglobin levels, thereby eliminating the need for splenectomy and reducing transfusion requirement and related iron overload.

Beta thalassemia intermedia syndromes are genetic anemias caused by mutations which reduce production of beta globin, a major component of adult hemoglobin A, the protein which delivers oxygen throughout the body. Patients suffer from poor growth, fatigue, heart failure, endocrine deficiencies, and eventually, many require chronic blood transfusions. There is no approved therapeutic for the deficiency of beta globin chains in beta thalassemia. This trial will study an oral therapeutic which stimulates production of fetal globin, an alternate type which is produced by all humans, but is normally switched off in infancy. This type of globin can compensate for the missing protein in beta thalassemia.

Thalassemia is considered the most common genetic disorder worldwide, occurring with high frequency in Mediterranean areas, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Currently, the only cure for thalassemia is bone marrow transplantation from a related, compatible donor. Gene transfer, achieved by transplantation of the patient's own blood stem cells that have been genetically-modified with the corrected gene, could potentially cure thalassemia. The first step in developing gene transfer for treatment of thalassemia is to develop a safe and effective method to obtain blood stem cells from thalassemia patients. Eventually, high numbers of genetically modified cells will need to be infused into the patient for clinical gene transfer to be effective. The blood stem cells are obtained by giving a "mobilization" agent to the patients. This causes the stem cells to leave the bone marrow and go into the blood. The purpose of this study is to test the safety and effectiveness of the new mobilization agent, Mozobil, in causing mobilization of blood stem cells for patients with beta-thalassemia major.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of HQK-1001 administered daily for 8 weeks in subjects with beta thalassemia intermedia