Five-Year Actively Controlled Clinical Trial in New Onset Juvenile Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Nephritis

NCT00336414 | Withdrawn Phase 3

• 1 other identifier: IGG-PRINTO-003
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: N/A
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This is a 5-year project, involving 185 partners from 46 countries (110 in 21 EU States and 75 in 25 extra-EU States), with a randomised clinical trials (RCT) in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (JSLE): 5-year phase III single-blind, RCT in children with newly diagnosed, WHO class III, IV JSLE proliferative nephritis: PDN and oral cyclophosphamide (CYC) versus high dose intravenous (iv) CYC versus intermediate dose iv CYC, followed by maintenance with azathioprine.The trial is aimed to find out the treatment regimen associated with the lowest occurrence of flare and the lowest drug related toxicity.

Conditions

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Nephritis

Keywords

Juvenile Systemic Lupus Erythematosus nephritis; randomised actively controlled clinical trial; cyclophosphamide; prednisone; azathioprine; methylprednisolone

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Primary: 50% improvement in at least 2 core set variables with no more tha 1 of the remaining variables worsened by> 30%

• core set variables:

• physician's global assessment of disease activity on a 10 cm visual analogue scale; global disease activity measure by the mean of the European Consensus Lupus Activity parent's/patient's global assessment of overall well-being on a 10 cm VAS;

• health-related quality of life assessment.

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Change over time in the individual components of the JSLE

• core set of variables; time to proteinuria disappearance; frequency of drop-out from

• suggested steroids use; frequency of drop-out for inefficacy of treatment.

Interventions

cyclophosphamide-prednisone-azathioprine DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 1 Year - 18 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Newly diagnosed children with untreated and biopsy proven revised WHO Class III, IV proliferative lupus nephritis and 24 hour proteinuria ≥ 500 mg/day. The kidney biopsy specimen will be read by the renal pathologists of the participating centres (light and immunofluorescence) (54). Slides of paraffin-embedded sections from all patients will be re-viewed by a blinded a renal pathologist at the PRINTO coordinating centre.
• Diagnosis of JSLE according to the ACR revised classification criteria (57); Age at enrolment ≤ 18 years. Female of child-bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test at the beginning of the trial, and then every 3 months. If sexually active, they must agree to use adequate contraception, throughout study participation, and must have no intention of conceiving during the course of the study. Post-pubertal males must have no plans to father a child during the study and agree to use adequate birth control methods if sexually active.
• Ability to comply with the entire study procedures, ability to communicate meaningfully with the investigational staff, competence to give written informed consent; to be applied to the parents and/or patients, as appropriate Duly executed, written, informed consent obtained from the parents or other legal representative and/or the patient according to requirement of the local ethics committee.

You may not qualify if:

• Treatment with the CYC, AZA or mycophenolate mofetil anytime before randomisation.
• Neutrophil count \<1,500 cell/mm3 and/or platelet count \<50,000/mm3. History of poor compliance with previous treatment. Evidence of current use of alcohol or illicit drugs abuse. Live vaccines not allowed during the entire duration of the trial.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Istituto Giannina Gaslini: lead

Study Sites (1)

Istituto Giannina Gaslini

Genoa, 16148, Italy

Location

Related Publications (9)

• Ruperto N, Ravelli A, Murray KJ, Lovell DJ, Andersson-Gare B, Feldman BM, Garay S, Kuis W, Machado C, Pachman L, Prieur AM, Rider LG, Silverman E, Tsitsami E, Woo P, Giannini EH, Martini A; Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization (PRINTO); Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group (PRCSG). Preliminary core sets of measures for disease activity and damage assessment in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus and juvenile dermatomyositis. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2003 Dec;42(12):1452-9. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keg403. Epub 2003 Jun 27.

  PMID: 12832713 BACKGROUND

• Ruperto N, Ravelli A, Cuttica R, Espada G, Ozen S, Porras O, Sztajnbok F, Falcini F, Kasapcopur O, Venning H, Bica B, Merino R, Coto C, Ros J, Susic G, Gamir ML, Minden K, See Y, Uziel Y, Mukamel M, Riley P, Zulian F, Olivieri AN, Cimaz R, Girschick H, Rumba I, Cavuto S, Pistorio A, Lovell DJ, Martini A; Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization (PRINTO); Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group (PRCSG). The Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization criteria for the evaluation of response to therapy in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus: prospective validation of the disease activity core set. Arthritis Rheum. 2005 Sep;52(9):2854-64. doi: 10.1002/art.21230.

  PMID: 16142708 BACKGROUND

• Ruperto N, Ravelli A, Oliveira S, Alessio M, Mihaylova D, Pasic S, Cortis E, Apaz M, Burgos-Vargas R, Kanakoudi-Tsakalidou F, Norambuena X, Corona F, Gerloni V, Hagelberg S, Aggarwal A, Dolezalova P, Saad CM, Bae SC, Vesely R, Avcin T, Foster H, Duarte C, Herlin T, Horneff G, Lepore L, van Rossum M, Trail L, Pistorio A, Andersson-Gare B, Giannini EH, Martini A; Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization. The Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization/American College of Rheumatology provisional criteria for the evaluation of response to therapy in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus: prospective validation of the definition of improvement. Arthritis Rheum. 2006 Jun 15;55(3):355-63. doi: 10.1002/art.22002.

  PMID: 16739203 BACKGROUND

• Boumpas DT, Austin HA 3rd, Vaughn EM, Klippel JH, Steinberg AD, Yarboro CH, Balow JE. Controlled trial of pulse methylprednisolone versus two regimens of pulse cyclophosphamide in severe lupus nephritis. Lancet. 1992 Sep 26;340(8822):741-5. doi: 10.1016/0140-6736(92)92292-n.

  PMID: 1356175 BACKGROUND

• Gourley MF, Austin HA 3rd, Scott D, Yarboro CH, Vaughan EM, Muir J, Boumpas DT, Klippel JH, Balow JE, Steinberg AD. Methylprednisolone and cyclophosphamide, alone or in combination, in patients with lupus nephritis. A randomized, controlled trial. Ann Intern Med. 1996 Oct 1;125(7):549-57. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-7-199610010-00003.

  PMID: 8815753 BACKGROUND

• Contreras G, Pardo V, Leclercq B, Lenz O, Tozman E, O'Nan P, Roth D. Sequential therapies for proliferative lupus nephritis. N Engl J Med. 2004 Mar 4;350(10):971-80. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa031855.

  PMID: 14999109 BACKGROUND

• Houssiau FA, Vasconcelos C, D'Cruz D, Sebastiani GD, Garrido Ed Ede R, Danieli MG, Abramovicz D, Blockmans D, Mathieu A, Direskeneli H, Galeazzi M, Gul A, Levy Y, Petera P, Popovic R, Petrovic R, Sinico RA, Cattaneo R, Font J, Depresseux G, Cosyns JP, Cervera R. Immunosuppressive therapy in lupus nephritis: the Euro-Lupus Nephritis Trial, a randomized trial of low-dose versus high-dose intravenous cyclophosphamide. Arthritis Rheum. 2002 Aug;46(8):2121-31. doi: 10.1002/art.10461.

  PMID: 12209517 BACKGROUND

• Mok CC, Ho CT, Siu YP, Chan KW, Kwan TH, Lau CS, Wong RW, Au TC. Treatment of diffuse proliferative lupus glomerulonephritis: a comparison of two cyclophosphamide-containing regimens. Am J Kidney Dis. 2001 Aug;38(2):256-64. doi: 10.1053/ajkd.2001.26084.

  PMID: 11479150 BACKGROUND

• Yee CS, Gordon C, Dostal C, Petera P, Dadoniene J, Griffiths B, Rozman B, Isenberg DA, Sturfelt G, Nived O, Turney JH, Venalis A, Adu D, Smolen JS, Emery P. EULAR randomised controlled trial of pulse cyclophosphamide and methylprednisolone versus continuous cyclophosphamide and prednisolone followed by azathioprine and prednisolone in lupus nephritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2004 May;63(5):525-9. doi: 10.1136/ard.2002.003574.

  PMID: 15082482 BACKGROUND

Related Links

• Web site of the international network who is conducting the trial
• Web site for families in 50 different languages with information about the pediatric rheumatic diseases

Study Officials

• Nicolino Ruperto, MD, MPH

  Istituto Giannina Gaslini-PRINTO

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 3
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 12, 2006
• First Posted: June 13, 2006
• Study Start: June 1, 2006
• Study Completion: June 1, 2007
• Last Updated: March 20, 2018

Record last verified: 2007-06

Locations

IT (1)