rhTPO Combining Dexamethasone Versus High-dose Dexamethasone for Initial Treatment of ITP

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-11-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The project was undertaking by Qilu Hospital of Shandong University and other 13 well-known hospitals in China. In order to report the efficacy and safety of Recombinant Human thrombopoietin combining with Dexamethasone for the treatment of adults with primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), compared to High-dose Dexamethasone therapy.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Shandong University
• Collaborators: Anhui Medical University; China Medical University, China; Shandong Provincial Hospital; Shenzhen Second People's Hospital; The Affiliated Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences; The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University; Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of TCM
• Treatments: BB 1101; Dexamethasone; Dexamethasone 21-phosphate; Dexamethasone acetate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Meet the diagnostic criteria for immune thrombocytopenia.

2. Untreated hospitalized patients, may be male or female, between the ages of 18 ~ 80 years.

3. To show a platelet count < 30×10^9/L, and with bleeding manifestations.

4. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group（ECOG）performance status ≤ 2.

5. Willing and able to sign written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Received chemotherapy or anticoagulants or other drugs affecting the platelet counts within 3 months before the screening visit.

2. Received high-dose steroids or [2] intravenous immunoglobulin transfusion(IVIG)in the 3 weeks prior to the start of the study.

3. Current HIV infection or hepatitis B virus or hepatitis C virus infections.

4. Severe medical condition (lung, hepatic or renal disorder) other than ITP. Unstable or uncontrolled disease or condition related to or impacting cardiac function (e.g., unstable angina, congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension or cardiac arrhythmia)

5. Female patients who are nursing or pregnant, who may be pregnant, or who contemplate pregnancy during the study period.

6. Have a known diagnosis of other autoimmune diseases, established in the medical history and laboratory findings with positive results for the determination of antinuclear antibodies, anti-cardiolipin antibodies, lupus anticoagulant or direct Coombs test.

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