Crizanlizumab Prevents Sickle Cell Pain Crises

In a randomized trial of patients with sickle cell disease recently published in New England Journal of Medicine, the P-selectin inhibitor crizanlizumab resulted in a significantly lower rate of disease-related pain crises than placebo. Hydroxyurea is currently the only drug that modifies the natural history of the disease, but it doesn't prevent pain crises. In the intention-to-treat analysis, patients in the high-dose crizanlizumab group had a 45.3% lower rate of pain crises annually relative to placebo (median 1.63 vs 2.98) and the low-dose crizanlizumab group had a 32.6% lower rate of pain crises compared with placebo. The median time to the first crisis was significantly longer with high-dose crizanlizumab than with placebo (4.07 vs 1.38 months), as was the median time to the second crisis (10.32 vs 5.09 months)..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:317

Enthalten in:

The journal of the American Medical Association / Englische Ausgabe - 317(2017), 8, Seite 798-798

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Slomski, Anita [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical trials
Inhibitor drugs
Pain management
Sickle cell disease

doi:

10.1001/jama.2017.0355

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1992078548