Prospective, Randomized Trial of Personalized Medicine With Pentaglobin® After Surgical Infectious Source Control in Patients With Peritonitis
NCT ID: NCT03334006
Last Updated: 2025-09-15
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Basic Information
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RECRUITING
PHASE2
200 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2017-11-20
2028-03-31
Brief Summary
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1. Improvement of patient outcomes for peritonitis. Improvement in outcome will be determined by scores such as MOF, SOFA and survival.
2. Identification of biomarkers (including immunoglobulin levels, HLA-DR, NF-kB1 and other immunological biomarkers) to identify patient subpopulations that benefit most from IgGAM treatment. These patients will form the basis for a further randomized, controlled, double-blind Phase III trial (RCT) to demonstrate the benefit of this treatment.
3. In addition, these biomarkers could help to guide a targeted, i.e. "personalized", adjuvant therapy with Pentaglobin® (IgGAM) in the indication of peritonitis.
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Detailed Description
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1. Improvement of patient outcomes for peritonitis. Improvement in outcome will be determined by scores such as MOF, SOFA and survival.
2. Identification of biomarkers (including immunoglobulin levels, HLA-DR, NF-kB1 and other immunological biomarkers) to identify patient subpopulations that benefit most from IgGAM treatment. These patients will form the basis for a further randomized, controlled, double-blind Phase III trial (RCT) to demonstrate the benefit of this treatment.
3. In addition, these biomarkers could help to guide a targeted, i.e. "personalized", adjuvant therapy with Pentaglobin® (IgGAM) in the indication of peritonitis.
The control group receives Standard-of-Care treatment. The intervention group is additionally treated with IgGAM (Pentaglobin®) as an add-on treatment to Standard-of-Care.
Pentaglobin® is administered by continuous intravenous infusion over a period of 5 days of 0.4 ml/kg body weight/hour until the total dose of 7 ml/kg body weight/day is reached.
Primary outcome: Change in Multiple Organ Failure (MOF) score (measured in lung, heart, kidney, liver, blood) from baseline to day 7 after surgical infectious source control in the context of peritonitis.
The MOF score is determined in the morning. The following score points are distributed per organ: Normal organ function: 0 score points; organ dysfunction: 1 score point; single organ failure: 2 score points. A score \> 4 in the sum of the 5 organs indicates multiple organ failure. Patients who died before the MOF score was obtained are assigned a score of 10 score points.
Secondary outcome:
* Death within 28 days
* Death within 90 days
* Change in MOF score from baseline to day 5
* Multi-Organ Failure ( \> 4 MOF score points on day 7)
Exploratory objectives:
* Effects of Pentaglobin® therapy on the SOFA score (determined in the organs lung, CNS, circulation, liver, coagulation and kidney).
* Interaction of the biomarkers "NF-kB1" (steady), "CRP (≥ 70 mg/L), IgA (\< 150 mg/dl), IgG (\< 700 mg/dl), IgM (\< 35 mg/dl) and HLA-DR expression (≤ 8,000 molecules per monocyte) with therapy in terms of change in MOF score from baseline to days 5 and 7 and death within 28 and 90 days.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
The preparation to be provided contains (per ml solution) 50 mg human plasma proteins, of which ≥ 95 % are immunoglobulins: IgM 6 mg, IgA 6 mg and IgG 38 mg. The IgG subclass distribution is IgG1 \~ 63 %, IgG2 \~ 26 %, IgG3 \~ 4 %, IgG4 \~ 7 %.
Pentaglobin® is administered by continuous intravenous infusion over a period of 5 day of 0.4 ml/kg body weight/hour until the total dose of 7 ml/kg body weight/day is reached.
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Control arm
Standard of Care treatment
No interventions assigned to this group
Verum arm
Standard of Care treatment + Pentaglobin®
Pentaglobin®/Standard of Care
Standard-of-Care treatment + Pentaglobin®
Interventions
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Pentaglobin®/Standard of Care
Standard-of-Care treatment + Pentaglobin®
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
2. The time of the surgical infectious source control is within 6 hours of indication (defined as date and time of registration for surgical or minimal invasive procedure).
3. Sepsis and / or septic shock (according to the current sepsis guideline of the German Sepsis Society).
4. SOFA Score ≥ 8
5. The concentration of IL-6 is ≥ 1000 pg / ml
6. Treatment with antibiotics is started within 12 hours of admission to the Intensive Care Unit
7. The informed consent form has been signed by the patient and / or by his legal representative (such as his spouse, an health care proxy authorized or a legal representative) or by a consultant physician
Exclusion Criteria
2. For female patients: The patient is pregnant or breastfeeding.
3. The patient is a minor (\< 18 years of age).
4. The patient has known chronic renal dysfunction requiring dialysis (creatinine ≥ 3.4 mg / dl or creatinine clearance ≤ 30 mL/min/1.73 m²).
5. The patient has acute, primarily non-infectious pancreatitis or mediastinitis.
6. The patient has a BMI \> 40.
7. The patient has any contraindication to study drug.
8. The patient has participated in another clinical trial within the last 30 days.
9. The patient is in a dependent or employment relationship with the sponsor or investigator.
10. The patient is institutionalized by court or government order.
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Biotest
INDUSTRY
RWTH Aachen University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Gernot Marx, Univ.-Prof.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
RWTH Aachen University
Locations
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Medizinische Universität Wien, Klinische Abteilung für Allgemeine Anästhesie und Intensivmedizin
Vienna, , Austria
Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Universitätsklinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin
Tübingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Universitätsklinikum Regensburg, Klinik für Anästhesiologie
Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany
Universitätsklinikum Essen, Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Klinik für Anästhesiologie mit Schwerpunkt operative Intensivmedizin
Berlin, State of Berlin, Germany
Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Klinik für Operative Intensivmedizin und Intermediate Care
Aachen, , Germany
Universitätsklinikum Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum GmbH, Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie
Bochum, , Germany
Klinikum Westfalen, Knappschaftskrankenhaus Dortmund, Klinik für Anästhesiologie, operative Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie
Dortmund, , Germany
Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Klinik und Poliklinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivtherapie
Dresden, , Germany
Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Klinik für Anästhesiologie
Düsseldorf, , Germany
Universitätklinikum Frankfurt, Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie
Frankfurt, , Germany
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Klinik für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie
Freiburg im Breisgau, , Germany
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Klinik für Intensivmedizin
Hamburg, , Germany
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Zentrum für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin
Hanover, , Germany
Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Anästhesiologische Klinik
Heidelberg, , Germany
Klinikum Magdeburg, Klinik für Intensivmedizin
Magdeburg, , Germany
Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Transplantationschirurgie
Mainz, , Germany
Klinikum der Universität München, Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Transplantationschirurgie
München, , Germany
Klinikum Nürnberg, Klinik für Anästhesiologie und operative Intensivmedizin
Nuremberg, , Germany
Heinrich-Braun-Klinikum gGmbH, Klinik für Anästhesie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin und Schmerztherapie
Zwickau, , Germany
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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2024-513526-27-00
Identifier Type: CTIS
Identifier Source: secondary_id
2016-001788-34
Identifier Type: EUDRACT_NUMBER
Identifier Source: secondary_id
15-167
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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