Rifaximin for Preventing Acute Graft Versus Host Disease (AGVHD)

NCT ID: NCT00967096

Last Updated: 2013-11-27

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE1
• Total Enrollment: 20 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2007-04-30
• Study Completion Date: 2009-04-30

Brief Summary

Acute graft versus host disease is a frequent and often life threatening complication of allogeneic blood and marrow transplantation. The bacteria that normally reside in the intestine play a critical role in its development. Injury to the lining of the bowel that results from the high dose chemotherapy or radiation that transplant patients receive during the week preceding the transplant allows the bacteria to invade the intestines and spread to nearby lymph nodes. This, in turn, causes inflammation which has been shown to promote GVHD. Both pre-clinical and clinical research has demonstrated that oral antibiotics can prevent graft versus host disease by inhibiting these gut bacteria. Rifaximin has several features that suggest it could be effective in preventing GVHD. Rifaximin prophylaxis might also provide an added benefit by protecting highly immunocompromised transplant patients from severe bacterial infections. This pilot trial will allow the investigators to determine the feasibility of using Rifaximin for prevention of GVHD and infection in patients undergoing allogeneic blood and marrow transplantation. The preliminary results will be used to plan a more definitive trial.

Conditions

Malignancy; Bone Marrow Transplantation

Keywords

rifaximin; acute graft versus host disease; bone marrow transplant; non-malignancy requiring BMT

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

1

The primary clinical endpoint to be assessed in this study will be the proportion of Rifaximin doses successfully administered. Because of mucositis, compliance with oral agents, even those that are well tolerated in other settings, may be limited in the early post-transplant period. Thus, it will be important to demonstrate the feasibility of administering Rifaximin to BMT patients before embarking on larger scale studies. Secondary outcomes will include AGVHD, event-free survival, overall survival, non-relapse mortality, neutrophil and platelet engraftment.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Rifaximin

Intervention Type: DRUG

Rifaximin for Bone marrow transplant patients

Interventions

Rifaximin

Rifaximin for Bone marrow transplant patients

Intervention Type: DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients must be at least 12 years old.

2. Patients will be eligible regardless of their type of disease (malignant or non-malignant), type of donor (HLA matched related, mismatched related or unrelated donors), type of hematopoietic cell source (unstimulated marrow, cytokine stimulated marrow, cytokine stimulated peripheral blood or umbilical cord blood), or GVHD prophylaxis.

3. Patients must receive a myeloablative or moderately intensive reduced intensity (at least 8 mg/kg oral busulfan (or the equivalent IV dose), or at least 100 mg/m2 of Melphalan , or at least 100 mg/kg of cyclophosphamide, or at least 500 cGy of TBI) conditioning regimen.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Age under 12 years.

2. Known hypersensitivity to rifaximin, or other rifamycin antimicrobial agents.

3. Minimally toxic conditioning regimen (e.g. low dose TBI based). Since these regimens induce minimal myelosuppression and gut injury, patients receiving them probably stand little to gain from antibiotic prophylaxis.

4. Patients with documented severe active infection (viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoal) will not be eligible.

5. Patients with treatment unresponsive hematologic malignant diseases (based on an assessment done within two weeks of the start of conditioning therapy).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Emory University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

John Horan

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

John Horan, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Emory University

Locations

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

Rifaximin

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

IRB00003578

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id