Clinical trial NCT03648190: Platelet Glycoproteins in Inherited Thrombocytopathy: Association With Aggregation Studies and Bleeding Severity
Official title: Evaluation of Platelet Surface Glycoproteins in Patients With Inherited Thrombocytopathy: Association With Aggregation Studies and Bleeding Severity
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Bleeding
Platelet Dysfunction
Keywords: GT
CD
Lead sponsor: Assiut University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-08-27
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Bleeding patients suffering from inherited qualitative platelets defect, with the exclusion of coagulation defects, acquired bleeding disorders and anti-platelet drugs intake. Both male and females are eligible with no age limits.

Brief summary: Disorders of platelet function are characterized by variable mucocutaneous bleeding manifestations and excessive hemorrhage following surgical procedures or trauma. Generally, most patients have mild to moderate bleeding manifestations with a prolonged bleeding time.

Platelet aggregation and secretion studies using platelet-rich plasma (PRP) provide evidence for platelet dysfunction but are neither predictive of severity of clinical manifestations nor the molecular mechanisms.

Glanzmann's thrombasthenia (GT) is a rare autosomal recessive genetic bleeding syndrome characterized by defects in platelet aggregometry. The clinical phenotype of patients with GT is variable. Some suffer from severe bleeding, while others have only mild bleeding. Some studies found bleeding severity in GT was influenced by the abundance and functioning of platelet receptors involved in aggregation and adhesion.

In addition to a complete medical history, a GT diagnosis requires a comprehensive laboratory workup, including platelet aggregation analysis, and a confirmation by flowcytometry or western blotting with monoclonal antibodies that recognize the GPIIb/IIIa complex.

Platelet flow cytometry is an emerging tool in diagnostic and therapeutic hematology. It is eminently suited to study the expression of platelet surface receptors both qualitatively as well as quantitatively.

Aim of the study:-

* Determine the role of flowcytometry as a quantitative measurement tool of platelets surface glycoproteins in patients with inherited thrombocytopathies and its correlation with bleeding severity of these patients.
* To compare the efficacy, advantages and disadvantages between platelets flowcytometry and aggregometer in diagnosing various inherited thrombocytopathies.

Detailed description: This study is a case-control observational study to be done at Clinical pathology department, Assiut University hospital, Assiut University, Egypt.

Patients with inherited qualitative platelets defect with clinical manifestations in the form of mucocutaneous bleeding or hemorrhage will be included in the study. Individuals with similar age and sex distribution to the patient group will act as controls. Control group shouldn't take medications or anti-platelet drugs for the preceding two weeks. They should have normal platelet count and morphology. Bleeding patients with acquired bleeding, coagulation defects, and those on anti-platelet drugs will be excluded from the study.

All Patients with inherited platelets function disorders will be subjected to:-

I - Careful history and clinical examination data collecting including:

Clinical history of bleeding such as (Sites, Severity and frequency of bleeding, trauma related events, history of surgical procedures, history of menorrhagia in females, history of packed red cell/ platelets transfusion.

II - Family history such as consanguinity, bleeding complications in any parents/ siblings.

III - Grading of bleeding severity: according to World Health Organization (WHO) bleeding assessment scale from grade 1 to grade 4.

The following routine investigations will be done:-

1. Complete blood count (CBC) analysis.
2. Prothrombin time, concentration and international normalized ratio (INR) assay.
3. Activated partial thromboplastin time assay.
4. Fibrinogen level and thrombin time assay.

The following specific investigations:-

1. Platelets aggregation tests by aggregometer using four different agonists (ADP, Collagen, Arachidonic acid and ristocetin) on Bio/Data PAP-8E.
2. Flowcytometry analysis of platelets receptors (CD 41, CD 61 and CD 42b) on BD FACSCalibur flowcytometry instrument.

Data collection and analysis will be done by computer program SPSS version 21 Chicago USA. Data expressed as mean ±SD, mean±SE, number and percentage. Using Manwhitny test to determine the significance for numeric variable and chisquare to determine the significance for non-parametric variable. ROC curve was done to determine the area under curve (AUC), sensitivity and specificity for each marker.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Bleeding patients.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Coagulation defects, and those on anti-platelet drugs.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Establishment of a protocol for Flowcytometry device to be used in routinely diagnosing cases with inherited platelets function defects.
timeFrame: 6 Weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Assiut
country: Egypt
facility: Assiut University Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Assiut University
name: Hanan Galal, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Assiut University
name: Madleen Adel, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Assiut University
name: Eman Nasr-Eldin, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Assiut University
name: Mohammed Ashraf, M.Sc
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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