Precise infliximab exposure and pharmacodynamic control to achieve deep remission in paediatric Crohn's disease (REMODEL-CD) : study protocol for a multicentre, open-label, pragmatic clinical trial in the USA

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INTRODUCTION: The only biologic therapy currently approved to treat moderate to severe Crohn's disease in children (<18 years old) are those that antagonise tumour necrosis factor-alpha (anti-TNF). Therefore, it is critically important to develop novel strategies that maximise treatment effectiveness in this population. There is growing evidence that rates of sustained corticosteroid-free clinical remission, endoscopic healing and drug durability considerably improve when patients receive early anti-TNF dose optimisations guided by reactive or proactive therapeutic drug monitoring and pharmacodynamic monitoring. In response, our team has developed a personalised and scalable infliximab dosing intervention that starts with dose selection and continues throughout maintenance to optimise drug exposure. We hypothesise that a precision dosing strategy starting from induction and targeting dose-specific pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic endpoints throughout therapy will significantly improve outcomes compared with a conventional dosing strategy.

METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Conduct a clinical trial to assess rates of deep remission between Crohn's disease patients receiving infliximab with precision dosing (n=90) versus conventional care (n=90). Patients (age 6-22 years) will be recruited from 10 medical centres in the USA. Each centre has been selected to provide either precision dosing or conventional care dosing. Precision dosing includes the use of a clinical decision support tool (RoadMAB) from the start of infliximab to achieve specific (personalised) trough concentrations and specific pharmacodynamic targets (at doses 3, 4 and 6). Conventional care includes the use of a modified infliximab starting dose (5 or 7.5 mg/kg based on the pretreatment serum albumin) with a goal to achieve maintenance trough concentrations of 5-10 µg/mL. The primary endpoint is year 1 deep remission defined as a combination of clinical remission (paediatric Crohn's disease activity index<10 (child) or a Crohn's disease activity index<150 (adults)), off prednisone>8 weeks and endoscopic remission (simple endoscopic severity-Crohn's disease≤2).

ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: ). The study protocol has been approved by the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre Institutional Review Board. Study results will be disseminated in peer-reviewed journals and presented at scientific meetings.

TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT05660746.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

BMJ open - 14(2024), 3 vom: 25. März, Seite e077193

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Minar, Phillip Paul [VerfasserIn]
Colman, Ruben J [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Nanhua [VerfasserIn]
Mizuno, Tomoyuki [VerfasserIn]
Vinks, Alexander A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antibodies, Monoclonal
B72HH48FLU
CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Clinical Trial
Inflammatory bowel disease
Infliximab
Journal Article
Paediatric gastroenterology
Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.03.2024

Date Revised 30.03.2024

published: Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT05660746

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/bmjopen-2023-077193

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370211197