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NCT06291025
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Efficacy and Safety of Immunosuppression, Caplacizumab and Plasma Infusion Without Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Immune-mediated Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Sponsor: University Hospital, Rouen

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Summary

Immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (iTTP) is caused by a severe, autoantibody-mediated deficiency of ADAMTS13 leading to an accumulation of ultra-large von Willebrand factor multimers in plasma and finally to microthrombi in blood vessels. The current standard of care of iTTP consists in the triple association of daily plasma exchange (PEX, 60 ml/kg/day), immunosuppressive agents and anti-adhesive treatment (Caplacizumab). Our group recently reported the outcome of 90 patients with iTTP treated with this triple association and when compared to historical patients, the triplet regimen prevented death, refractoriness and exacerbations. Likewise, plasma volumes were reduced by 2 to 3-fold and the median number of PEX sessions could be reduced from 13 to 6. PEX is an invasive and time-consuming procedure, associated with catheter and plasma-related complications ranging from 22% to 30%. Consequently, to alleviate the burden of care in iTTP, using a regimen without PEX would represent a major and topical goal. Attempts to treat patients with plasma infusion (PI) without PEX were previously reported and provided evidence that large volumes of PI (20-30 ml/kg/day) improved the initial outcome of iTTP. However, fluid overload occurred in most cases after 5-7 days, limiting the feasibility of this strategy. Nevertheless, the recent availability of caplacizumab opens the perspective of treating patients with plasma for a shorter period. Recently, strategies without PEX have been carried out in Jehovah's Witnesses with iTTP \[5\]. Impressively, improvement was rapid and comparable to those provided with a standard PEX-based treatment. Additionally, a treatment combining caplacizumab and immunosuppression only was successfully performed in six iTTP patients with severe neurologic and/or cardiac involvement. The rapid and durable improvement provides evidence that a regimen without plasma seems feasible. However, it's considered that robust data are still lacking to completely remove plasmatherapy from iTTP management. Based on these statements, the objective is to address the efficacy and safety of a PEX-free regimen, combining PI only (15 ml/kg/day), corticosteroids/rituximab, and caplacizumab.

Official title: Efficacy and Safety of Immunosuppression, Caplacizumab and Plasma Infusion Without Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Immune-mediated Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: Multicentric Non-inferiority Single-arm Study

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

18 Years - Any

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

131

Start Date

2024-04-10

Completion Date

2026-08-01

Last Updated

2026-02-17

Healthy Volunteers

No

Interventions

PROCEDURE

PEX-FREE

The study/experimental procedure consists in replacing daily PEX with daily plasma infusions (ie. Quarantine fresh frozen plasma (PFC-Se), solvent detergent/viral inactivated plasma (PFC-SD = OCTAPLASLG) or amotosalen-inactivated plasma (PFC-IA); volume 15mL/kg/day).

Locations (30)

Chu Amiens

Amiens, France

Chu Angers

Angers, France

Chru Besanon

Besançon, France

Chu Bobigny

Bobigny, France

Hopital Jean Verdie

Bondy, France

Chu Bordeaux

Bordeaux, France

Chu Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand, France

Chu Lille

Lille, France

Chu Limoges

Limoges, France

Chu Edouard Herriot

Lyon, France

Ap-Hm La Conception

Marseille, France

Chu Montpellier

Montpellier, France

Chu Nancy

Nancy, France

Chu Nantes

Nantes, France

CHU NICE

Nice, France

Chu Nimes

Nîmes, France

Ap-Hp Saint Louis

Paris, France

Ap-Hp St Antoine

Paris, France

Ap-Hp Pitie Salpetriere

Paris, France

CH PAU

Pau, France

Chu Reims

Reims, France

Chu Rouen

Rouen, France

Ch Saint-Nazaire

Saint-Nazaire, France

Chu Strasbourg

Strasbourg, France

Chu Toulouse

Toulouse, France

Chu Tours

Tours, France

Ch Valenciennes

Valenciennes, France

Chu Martinique

Fort-de-France, Martinique

Reunion Nord

Saint-Denis, Reunion

Chu Reunion Sud

Saint-Pierre, Reunion