This study is being conducted to explore the potential benefits of a twelve-month doxycycline (at the best tolerated dose of 200 mg/day) and tauroursodeoxycholic acid (750 mg/day) treatment on disease progression in patients affected by transthyretin amyloidosis, including: 1) patients not eligible for liver transplantation; 2) patients eligible for liver transplantation, as a "bridge" therapy between the time of diagnosis and surgery, with the aim of stabilizing the disease; 3) patients showing disease progression after liver transplantation performed since at least 1 year. It is a phase II, therapeutic exploratory, two-part, 18-month, single centre, prospective study. Part I is a 12-month, open label treatment period in which doxycycline (200 mg/day, continuously) and tauroursodeoxycholic acid (750 mg/day continuously) are administered to 40 consenting subjects with transthyretin amyloidosis. Part II is a withdrawal period in which subjects will be monitored for disease progression. During part I, subjects will be evaluated at baseline (study Day 0), and then after 3, 6, 9 and 12 months of doxycycline plus tauroursodeoxycholic acid treatment or at premature treatment discontinuation; during part II, they will be assessed at months 15 and 18. Monthly phone contacts and blood tests will be performed to monitor potential adverse events.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
40
doxycycline 100 mg twice a day for 12 months; tauroursodeoxycholic acid 250 mg three times a day for 12 months
Amyloid Research and Treatment Centre, Biotechnology Research Laboratories
Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Response rate to doxycycline + tauroursodeoxycholic acid treatment
A responder is a subject with: * a modified body mass index (mBMI) reduction of less than 10% and a change in the Neurologic Impairment Score-Lower Limbs (NIS-LL) \<2 (in subjects with peripheral neuropathy); * a modified body mass index (mBMI) reduction of less than 10% and an increase in N-terminal natriuretic peptide type B (NT-proBNP) concentration of less than 30% or \< 300 pg/mL (in subjects with isolated cardiomyopathy).
Time frame: One year
Number of patients experiencing treatment-emergent adverse events
Time frame: One year
Change in quality of life
SF-36 scale
Time frame: Every six months
doxycycline pharmacokinetics (PK)
Time frame: Every three months
response in autonomic dysfunction, sensory-motor peripheral neuropathy and visceral organ involvement
response assessed according to the Kumamoto Scale score
Time frame: One year
neurologic response
response assessed by motor and sensory nerves conduction studies
Time frame: One year
Incidence of patients discontinuing from the study because of clinical or laboratory adverse events
Time frame: One year
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