This is an open label, prospective Pilot interventional study will investigate the safety and efficacy of Romiplostim, thrombopoietin (TPO) mimetic, in children (ages: 0 to 21 years) with broad scope of bone marrow failure disorders including acquired and inherited conditions as a first line of therapy along with standard of care.
This investigator-initiated study will investigate the safety and efficacy of Romiplostim, thrombopoietin (TPO) mimetic, in children (ages: 0 to 21 years) with broad scope of bone marrow failure disorders (BMF) including acquired and inherited conditions as a first line of therapy along with standard of care. Objectives: Primary objectives are to evaluate safety and preliminary efficacy of Romiplostim in children with BMF. Methods: This open label, prospective Pilot interventional study has two arms. Arm A will include acquired bone marrow failure (BMF) disorders including aplastic anemia, refractory cytopenia of childhood without monosomy 7 and 5q deletion abnormalities, toxin induced myelosuppression due to infection and inherited cytopenia with or without involvement of other cell lines who are transfusion dependent and or showing progression to bone marrow failure. Arm B will include children with chemo and or radiotherapy induced thrombocytopenia/cytopenia and children undergoing stem cell transplantation (SCT). Children with cancer predisposition and other morbidities which are considered significant by the investigator will be excluded from the study.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
15
Nplate is a thrombopoietin receptor agonist indicated for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in patients with chronic immune (idiopathic) thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) who have had an insufficient response to corticosteroids, immunoglobulins, or splenectomy.
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Occurrence of treatment-related adverse events (AEs) according to NCI CTCAE v5.0
Categorize and quantify AEs per CTCAE version 5.0
Time frame: During treatment and through 90 days following discontinuation of treatment
To estimate preliminary efficacy of Romiplostim as measured by improvement in hematopoiesis
Improvement in at least one of the cell blood lineages by 24 weeks of therapy: 1. Platelet response (increase to 10 X 103/mL above baseline or stable platelet counts with transfusion independence for a minimum of 2 weeks in those who were transfusion dependent on entry into the protocol) 2. Erythroid response (when pretreatment hemoglobin was, below 7 g/dL, defined as an increase in hemoglobin by 1.5 g/dL or, in transfused patients, a reduction in the units of packed red blood cell transfusions by an absolute number of at least 4 transfusions for 8 consecutive weeks, compared with the pretreatment transfusion number in the previous 8 weeks) 3. Neutrophil response (when pretreatment absolute neutrophil count \[ANC\] of 0.5 x103 /mL as at least a 100% increase in ANC, or an ANC increase by 0.5 x103 /mL)
Time frame: By 24 weeks of therapy
To assess time to hematological response
Time from Romiplostim initiation to response, as defined in Outcome 2, for each cell lineage
Time frame: Time from Romiplostim initiation to response, by 24 weeks of therapy
To assess longitudinal changes in blood counts
Change in blood counts from Romiplostim initiation until the end of treatment
Time frame: From treatment beginning to end, up to 52 weeks
To assess the incidence of bleeding (including muco-cutaneous bleeding)
Occurrences of bleeding as defined by the International Society of Haemostasis and Thrombosis Bleeding Assessment Tool (https://bleedingscore.certe.nl/)
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Time frame: From treatment beginning to end, up to 52 weeks
To assess the incidence of neutropenic fever
Number of occurrences of neutropenic fever
Time frame: From treatment beginning to end, up to 52 weeks
To assess the requirement of blood product support
Change in number of platelet and red call transfusions without active bleeding diathesis
Time frame: Prior to initiation of treatment through end of treatment, up to 52 weeks
To assess development of bone marrow myelofibrosis
Increase in bone marrow myelofibrosis as measured by reticulin staining of bone marrow biopsy at diagnosis and follow up bone marrow testing upon initiation of Romiplostim
Time frame: at 3 to 6 months after treatment initiation; within 4 to 6 weeks after discontinuation of treatment or any other time-point if deemed clinically indicated
To assess transfusion dependence or decreased platelet transfusion requirement among subjects who receive pretreatment platelet transfusion
Number of patients who are transfusion dependent or who require decreased platelet transfusion
Time frame: Up to 24 weeks after treatment initiation