Teriflunomide for Steroid-resistant/Relapse Immune Thrombocytopenia

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2025-06-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Single-arm, open-label, single-center study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of teriflunomide for the treatment of adults with steroid-resistant/relapse immune thrombocytopenia (ITP).

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Peking University People's Hospital
• Treatments: Teriflunomide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Diagnosis of primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) by excluding other supervened causes of thrombocytopenia

2. Patients with a platelet count <30,000/μL or a platelet count <50,000/μL with bleeding manifestations at the enrollment;

3. Patients who did not achieve a sustained response to treatment with full-dose corticosteroids for a minimum duration of 4 weeks or who relapsed during steroid tapering or after its discontinuation;

4. Willing and able to sign written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Received chemotherapy or anticoagulants or other drugs affecting the platelet counts within 6 months before the screening visit;

2. Secondary immune thrombocytopenia (e.g. patients with HIV, HCV, Helicobacter pylori infection, malignancy, or patients with confirmed autoimmune disease);

3. Pregnancy or lactation;

4. Pre-existing acute or chronic liver disease, or serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) greater than 2 times the upper limit of normal (ULN);

5. Current or recent (< 4 weeks prior to screening) clinically serious viral, bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infection;

6. Have evidence of active tuberculosis (TB), or have previously had evidence of active TB and did not receive appropriate and documented treatment, or have had household contact with a person with active TB and did not receive appropriate and documented prophylaxis for TB;

7. Patients who are deemed unsuitable for the study by the investigator.