Safety, Tolerability and Performance of the NucleoCapture Device in the Reduction of Circulating CfDNA/NETs in Subjects with Sepsis

NCT ID: NCT05647096

Last Updated: 2024-11-29

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

73 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-07-01

Study Completion Date

2027-05-28

Brief Summary

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This is a prospective, multinational, multicentre, randomised, parallel-group, open-label study to assess the safety, tolerability and performance of the NucleoCapture extracorporeal apheresis device in the reduction of circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA)/Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) in sepsis patients.

Detailed Description

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This study investigates the safety, tolerability and performance of the NucleoCapture extracorporeal apheresis device in patients with sepsis and respiratory failure. Sepsis is a common condition in hospital settings and is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality and despite ongoing development in the treatment and supportive care of sepsis, mortality remains considerable.

cfDNA/NET therapeutic apheresis with NucleoCapture is indicated for the treatment of sepsis and for the treatment/prevention of septic shock. Participants will be randomised to receive either standard of care (SOC) or SOC plus NucleoCapture treatment, SOC will be according to the current guidelines described by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign: international guidelines for the management of sepsis and septic shock. Participants in the SOC plus NucleoCapture arm will receive one treatment session with NucleoCapture per day, for the first three days. Each treatment session with NucleoCapture will last for up 6 hours, aiming to treat 4.5 plasma volumes. Treatment sessions with NucleoCapture treating less than 3.5 plasma volumes will be counted as incomplete and the treatment session will be repeated on the following day, up to day 5 maximum.

Assessments and tests will take place for all participants whilst in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on days 1 to 5, day 7, day 14, day 21 and day 28. Participants transferred to ward-based care before day 28 will receive no further study assessment visits from the point of transfer to ward-based care, apart from day 28 in which participants will receive a final study assessment visit.

Conditions

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Sepsis Respiratory Failure

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Participants will be randomly assigned to either the interventional treatment arm (SOC plus NucleoCapture) or the SOC treatment arm in a 2:1
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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NucleoCapture Treatment

Participants in the NucleoCapture treatment arm will receive Standard of Care plus three treatment sessions with the NucleoCapture treatment device. The device consists of 100ml NucleoCapture selective adsorber.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

NucleoCapture device

Intervention Type DEVICE

100ml NucleoCapture selective DNA adsorber

Standard of Care

Participants in the Standard of Care arm will receive standard medical care alone.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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NucleoCapture device

100ml NucleoCapture selective DNA adsorber

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adult patients aged 18-75
* Proven or suspected respiratory sepsis aetiology
* Acute respiratory failure currently requiring invasive mechanical ventilation for not more than 48 hours duration
* Horowitz Index for Lung Function (Pa02/Fi02 Ratio) ≤200mmHg or ≤26.6kPa
* Sequential organ failure assessment score (SOFA) ≥4 and ≤ 14
* Have provided written informed consent or consent is given by the patient's legally designated representative or an independent physician (if possible, according to local law).

Exclusion Criteria

* Expected duration of invasive mechanical ventilation less than 48 hours
* The use of other non-routine extracorporeal sepsis treatments such as very high flux renal replacement therapy (\>60ml/kg/h total exchange), use of high cut off filters or other non-routine extracorporeal treatment columns such as Cytosorb, Toramyxcin, etc).
* Presence of severe multiple organ failure at the point of enrolment as evidenced by:

* Severe refractory vasoplegic failure

* Norepinephrine dose \> 0.60 μg/kg/min
* Use of epinephrine
* Concomitant cardiogenic shock, clinically suspected or CI\<2.2 if measured

* Use of dobutamine, epinephrine, phosphodiesterase inhibitors or levosimendan
* Coagulopathy as defined by platelet count \<50
* Calculated Plasma Volume greater than 5000ml as determined by an estimation of total blood volume (according to Nadler's formula, incorporating height, weight and sex) multiplied by (1- Haematocrit). A total blood volume calculator is available at https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/blood-volume
* Long term oxygen therapy or home oxygen use
* Liver cirrhosis (histologically proven or clinically suspected)
* Active bleeding
* Citrate intolerance if citrate is required for therapeutic apheresis
* Heparin allergy if heparin is required for therapeutic apheresis
* Metastatic disease with life expectancy of \<12 months and ECOG score of at least 2
* Haematological malignancy if not in remission
* Solid organ transplant and concomitant use of immunosuppression
* Dialysis dependent Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD Stage 5-D)
* Prior use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in index admission
* Requirement for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
* Patient expected to die within 48 hours of admission to ICU
* Known allergy to components of NucleoCapture
* Current Participation in another interventional clinical trial
* Pregnancy (as established by the presence of beta human chorionic gonadotropin in urine or blood)
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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ISS AG

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Santersus AG

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Andrew Aswani

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Santersus AG

Locations

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University of Bonn

Bonn, , Germany

Site Status

Technical University Dresden

Dresden, , Germany

Site Status

Hannover Medical School

Hannover, , Germany

Site Status

University of Zurich

Zurich, , Switzerland

Site Status

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Birmingham, , United Kingdom

Site Status

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, , United Kingdom

Site Status

Liverpool University Hospital

Liverpool, , United Kingdom

Site Status

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital

London, , United Kingdom

Site Status

University College London

London, , United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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Germany Switzerland United Kingdom

Central Contacts

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Emma Barsoum

Role: CONTACT

+447806820434

Facility Contacts

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Christian Bode

Role: primary

Peter Spieth

Role: primary

Klaus Stahl

Role: primary

Julius Schmidt

Role: backup

Sascha David

Role: primary

Mansoor Bangash

Role: primary

Thomas Craven

Role: primary

Ben Morton

Role: primary

Marlies Ostermann

Role: primary

Duncan Wyncoll

Role: backup

David Brealey

Role: primary

Mervyn Singer

Role: backup

Other Identifiers

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SAN/01/2022

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id