Some of the treatments for cancer can cause platelets (the part of the blood that helps with clotting) to decrease. If they are too low, then clinicians may recommend a transfusion (getting platelets from another person added to someone else's body). This usually works to increase the person's platelets to a healthy level, but sometimes it doesn't work. This is called platelet refractoriness. This study is trying to find out whether isatuximab (the study drug) may help people with a certain type of platelet refractoriness by removing some cells in order to make platelet transfusions more effective.
Participants in this study will receive 4 weekly infusions of the study drug, isatuximab, by intravenous infusion. The dose of isatuximab infusions may be larger or smaller and take a longer or shorter time to infuse depending on your weight and time required will decrease from the first to second infusion and from the second to third and fourth infusion. Participants will be observed for 2 hours after each infusion. Participants will continue to receive platelet transfusions according to standard clinical care and will be followed for about 120 days after their last dose of isatuximab.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
3
Given by intravenous infusion
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Percent panel-reactive antibodies (PRAs)- change over time/with study treatment
A weighted percent of class I HLA targets to which the patient has made antibodies
Time frame: Through about 120 days following last study drug infusion
Mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) - change over time/ with study treatment
MFI of each class I anti-HLA antibody contributing to the %PRA
Time frame: Through about 120 days following last study drug infusion
Quality of life - changes over time/with study treatment according to the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Leukemia (FACT-Leu)
Each question is scored on a 5-point scale (0 - 4), with a mixture of questions scored with low numbers indicating better quality of life and others indicating worse quality
Time frame: Through about 120 days following last study drug infusion
Adverse events
Frequency, severity (by CTCAE v5), and duration of Grade 3 or higher adverse events considered related to the study intervention
Time frame: Through about 30 days following last study drug infusion
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