NCT06168851

Anti-CD38 Antibody Treating Pediatric Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP)

A Prospective, One-arm and Open Clinical Study to Assess Safety and Efficacy of Anti-CD38 Antibody in the Treatment of Pediatric Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, China · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of Anti-CD38 Antibody in the treatment of pediatric primary immune thrombocytopenia in patients who have not responded adequately or relapsed after first-line treatment and at least one second-line therapy including Anti-CD20 Antibody and/or TPO-RA, or those in whom no other second-line treatment options are suitable.

Detailed description

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an organ-specific autoimmune disease, which is characterized by decreased platelet count and skin and mucosal bleeding. ITP is a kind of disease with increased platelet destruction and impaired platelet production caused by autoimmunity. Conventional treatment of adult ITP includes first-line glucocorticoid and immunoglobulin therapy, second line TPO and TPO receptor agonist, splenectomy and other immunosuppressive treatments (such as rituximab, vincristine, azathioprine, etc.). ITP is one of the most common hemorrhagic diseases. At present, the treatment response of ITP is not good, and a considerable number of patients need drug maintenance treatment, which seriously affects the quality of life of patients and increases the economic burden of patients. Therefore, there is still a lack of effective treatment for adult ITP, especially for recurrent and refractory ITP patients, which is one of the problems that have attracted more attention and need to be solved urgently. The main pathogenesis of ITP is the loss of platelet autoantigen immune tolerance, which leads to abnormal activation of humoral and cellular immunity. It is characterized by antibody mediated platelet destruction and insufficient platelet production by megakaryocytes. The residual long-term autoreactive plasma cells may be a source of therapeutic resistance to autoimmune cytopenia. Antiplatelet specific plasma cells have been detected in the spleen of patients with rituximab refractory ITP. Therefore, the strategy of simply eliminating B cells may not work, because LLPC will continue to produce pathogenic antibodies. However, targeting LLPC becomes a new strategy to treat autoimmune diseases. Anti-CD38 antibody is a new type of monoclonal antibody targeting CD38. It targets plasma cells and has carried out some clinical studies in multiple myeloma, with good therapeutic effects. In addition, the clinical trials of similar CD38 monoclonal antibody drugs, such as daratumumab, in the treatment of autoimmune diseases, including membranous nephropathy, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and ITP, are also being carried out simultaneously. We assume that autologous reaction LLPC may be the cause of treatment failure in some ITP patients. Therefore, the use of CD38 monoclonal antibody to clear long-term surviving plasma cells in ITP patients may be a new strategy for treating ITP patients. Therefore, the investigators designed this clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of CD38 monoclonal antibody in the treatment of pediatric immune thrombocytopenia in patients who are steroid-refractory or steroid-dependent, and fail to respond to at least one previous second-line therapy, including Anti-CD20 Antibody and/ or TPO agonist.

Conditions

• Immune Thrombocytopenia
• Treatment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Anti-CD38 antibody Injection	intravenous Anti-CD38 antibody administration This study adopts a prospective, single arm, open design method. Twenty subjects were enrolled in the study and were treated with Anti-CD38 antibody (16mg/kg/w) for 8 weeks. The first stage is the main research stage (d1-w8), which is the core treatment period. The subjects will receive intravenous infusion of 16mg/kg Anti-CD38 antibody once a week for 8 weeks to observe the safety and efficacy during treatment. The second stage (w9-w24) is the stage of withdrawal from the visit, mainly to observe the safety and continuous efficacy of Anti-CD38 antibody after treatment. The third stage (w 25 to y 5): Extension visit phase, primarily to observe the long-term safety and sustained efficacy following CD38 monoclonal antibody therapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-12-28
• Primary completion: 2025-12-01
• Completion: 2030-12-01
• First posted: 2023-12-13
• Last updated: 2025-11-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China