Previous Biogen studies have provided experience with the tolerability, immunogenicity, and efficacy of a single and multiple 12-week courses of therapy of alefacept. At this stage, experience in larger studies, as well as the FDA-approved labeling, is confined to treatment courses of 12 weeks. The purpose of the present study is to offer an extended course of therapy with alefacept.
Twenty statistically matched patients (15 males, 5 females, aged between 28 and 70 years, median 50 years) with moderate to severe psoriasis (PASI: 7-36) were included in this study. They were treated with 15 mg alefacept i.m. weekly. Peripheral blood was taken prior to first alefacept application and then weekly until week five and thereafter every second week, until the end of treatment at week 13. At the same time points severity of disease and thereby possible reduction of symptoms was evaluated applying the PASI. Investigators analysing the samples were blinded to the outcome of the study. The protocol concerning human subjects was approved by the ethics commission of the Charité University Medicine Berlin Campus Mitte, Germany .
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
Alefacept=LFA-3/IgG1 fusion protein, once weekly, 15mg i.m.
Psoriasis Study center, The interdisciplinary group of Molecular Immunopathology
Berlin, State of Berlin, Germany
Safety of an extended courses of alefacept when administered to subjects with chronic plaque psoriasis. Safety parameters: Physical examinations; vital signs; infections; blood test: lymphocyte subset analysis (CD4+); and adverse events.
Time frame: 12 + 4 weeks
Efficacy of an extended course of alefacept when administered to subjects with chronic plaque psoriasis: Time to requirement of additional systemic therapies, Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI); Physician Global Assessment (PGA).
Time frame: 12 + 4 weeks
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