Efficacy and Safety of ALSS Treatment for ICIs-LF in Patients With HCC

NCT ID: NCT05484908

Last Updated: 2024-11-29

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

60 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-08-12

Study Completion Date

2024-12-31

Brief Summary

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This study aims to investigate the efficacy and safety of artificial liver support system treatment for immune checkpoint inhibitors related liver failure in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Detailed Description

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Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are commonly used for advanced stage of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in recent years. The incident rate of Grade 4 immune checkpoint inhibitors-induced immune mediated hepatitis reaches 14.5%. Since these patients usually develop into liver failure, it is urgent to find out a more suitable therapy. Artificial liver support system (ALSS) treatment has been proved to effectively control both immune mediated hepatitis and liver failure, it may be a new therapy for immune checkpoint inhibitors-induced liver failure (ICIs-LF) in patients with HCC. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the efficacy and safety of ALSS treatment, including the classic mode of plasma exchange (PE) and new combination mode of double plasma molecular adsorption system (DPMAS) with sequential low-dose plasma exchange (LPE), for ICIs-LF in patients with HCC. Sixty patients with HCC and ICIs-LF will be enrolled in this study. The participants are randomly divided into trial group (DPMAS+LPE, and comprehensive internal medical treatment) and control group (PE and comprehensive internal medical treatment). Symptoms, signs, laboratory tests results, adverse events, mortality rates are recorded from treatment baseline to 12 weeks.

Conditions

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Immune-Mediated Hepatitis Liver Failure Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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DPMAS+LPE group

30 patients receive treatment of DPMAS, LPE, and comprehensive internal medical treatment.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

DPMAS+LPE

Intervention Type OTHER

Patients will receive treatment of double plasma molecular adsorption system (DPMAS) and low volume plasma exchange (LPE) for three times in two weeks. The volume of plasma adsorption in DPMAS is 5000\~6000 millilitre. The volume of fresh frozen plasma used in LPE is 1000 millilitre.

Comprehensive internal medical treatment

Intervention Type OTHER

Patients will receive comprehensive internal medical treatment.

PE group

30 patients receive treatment of PE and comprehensive internal medical treatment.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

PE

Intervention Type OTHER

Patients will receive treatment of plasma exchange (PE) for three times in two weeks. The volume of fresh frozen plasma used in PE is 2000 millilitre.

Comprehensive internal medical treatment

Intervention Type OTHER

Patients will receive comprehensive internal medical treatment.

Interventions

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DPMAS+LPE

Patients will receive treatment of double plasma molecular adsorption system (DPMAS) and low volume plasma exchange (LPE) for three times in two weeks. The volume of plasma adsorption in DPMAS is 5000\~6000 millilitre. The volume of fresh frozen plasma used in LPE is 1000 millilitre.

Intervention Type OTHER

PE

Patients will receive treatment of plasma exchange (PE) for three times in two weeks. The volume of fresh frozen plasma used in PE is 2000 millilitre.

Intervention Type OTHER

Comprehensive internal medical treatment

Patients will receive comprehensive internal medical treatment.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Age from 18 to 65 years old;
2. Clinical diagnosis of chronic hepatitis b virus infection (positive hepatitis b surface antigen or positive hepatitis b virus DNA \> 0.5 year);
3. Clinical diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma and receive immune checkpoint inhibitors treatment. The last treatment of immune checkpoint inhibitors is less than three months from inclusion;
4. The level of hepatitis b virus DNA \< 2000 IU/mL;
5. Serum aspartate aminotransferase/alanine aminotransferase \> 20 times upper limit of normal;serum total bilirubin\>10 times upper limit of normal;
6. Prothrombin time international ratio \> 1.5;
7. Platelets \> 50\*10 E9/L;
8. Without intrahepatic bile duct dilation due to tumor progression.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Other active liver diseases;
2. Other malignancy;
3. Pregnancy or lactation;
4. Human immunodeficiency virus infection or congenital immune deficiency diseases;
5. Severe diabetes, autoimmune diseases; unstable infarction due to cardio-cerebrovascular events; other important organ dysfunctions or transplantation;
6. Active bleeding, disseminated intravascular coagulation, thrombosis, or thrombotic disease;
7. Patients received artificial liver support system treatment in one week before inclusion;
8. Patients can not follow-up;
9. Investigator considering inappropriate
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Wenxiong Xu

Associate Chief Physician

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Wenxiong Xu, Doctor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University

Locations

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Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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China

Central Contacts

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Wenxiong Xu, Doctor

Role: CONTACT

+8613760783281

Liang Peng, Doctor

Role: CONTACT

+8613533978874

Facility Contacts

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Wenxiong Xu, Doctor

Role: primary

+8613760783281

References

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Luo Q, Zhang Y, Li Z, Chen J, Deng Z, Lai J, Chen X, Xie C, Peng L, Liu Y, Xu W. Efficacy and safety of artificial liver support system treatment for immune checkpoint inhibitors related liver failure in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: Protocol for a randomized controlled clinical trial. Heliyon. 2024 Oct 9;10(20):e39095. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39095. eCollection 2024 Oct 30.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 39640621 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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XWX4

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id