This is a multicenter study to see if treatment with IDN-6556 can help improve the liver function of patients with liver cirrhosis with Model for End-Stage Liver Disease scores between 11-18.
Numerous studies have shown that caspase cleaved cytokeratin 18 (cCK18) is elevated in the serum of liver disease patients and has been associated with disease severity, thus associating both excessive apoptosis and caspase activity with disease. Studies have also shown that caspase cleaved cytokeratin 18 is generally elevated to an even greater degree in cirrhosis than in other liver diseases. In addition, increasing stages of cirrhosis from Child-Pugh A, Child-Pugh B to Child-Pugh C are associated with progressively higher levels of caspase cleaved cytokeratin 18. Therefore, it appears that apoptosis and caspase activity tend to correlate with the stage of cirrhosis. A caspase inhibitor like IDN-6556 could have clinical utility by reducing the rate of apoptosis in cirrhotic patients and potentially reduce the progression of disease as determined by clinical markers of progression.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
87
Change From Baseline at Month 3 in cCK18/M30
Baseline, Month 3, and change between for cCK18/M30
Time frame: 3 months
Change From Baseline at Month 3 in cCK18/M30
Data was log-transformed for analysis purposes
Time frame: 3 months
Change From Baseline to Month 3 in MELD Score
The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) is a scoring system for assessing the severity of chronic liver disease and uses the subject's values for total bilirubin, serum creatinine, and the international normalized ratio (INR) for prothrombin time to predict survival. MELD is calculated according to the following formula: MELD = 3.78×ln\[serum bilirubin (mg/dL)\] + 11.2×ln\[INR\] + 9.57×ln\[serum creatinine (mg/dL)\] + 6.43 MELD scores are reported as whole numbers, so the result of the equation above is rounded. Notes: If the patient has been dialyzed twice within the last 7 days, then the value for serum creatinine used should be 4.0. Any value less than one is given a value of 1 (i.e. if bilirubin is 0.8, a value of 1.0 is used) to prevent the occurrence of scores below 0 (the natural logarithm of 1 is 0, and any value below 1 would yield a negative result). The higher the MELD score the more severe the disease state.
Time frame: 3 Months
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