Clinical trial NCT03356821: Perinatal Arterial Stroke Treated With Stromal Cells Intranasally
Official title: Adult Mesenchymal Stromal Cells to Regenerate the Neonatal Brain: the PASSIoN Trial (Perinatal Arterial Stroke Treated With Stromal Cells IntraNasally)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE1
PHASE2
Conditions: Perinatal Arterial Ischemic Stroke
Neonatal Stroke
Lead sponsor: UMC Utrecht
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development
name: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
name: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
First posted: 2017-11-29
Enrollment: 10
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 10
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: A phase I/II, open-label, single-arm, single-center intervention study in the NICU at the Wilhelmina children's Hospital / University Medical Centre in Utrecht of (near-)term newborns ≥36 weeks of gestation within the first week of onset of presenting clinical symptoms.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study will assess safety and feasibility of bone marrow-derived allogeneic MSCs, administered by the nasal route, in neonates who suffered from PAIS.

Detailed description: Perinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAIS) is an important perinatal cause of long-lasting neurodevelopmental problems. Recent studies report an incidence of PAIS of 1 per 2300 full-term infants born alive. Adverse consequences of PAIS include hemiplegia, cognitive dysfunction, epilepsy and speech problems. In 50-75% of infants, neonatal stroke leads to abnormal neuromotor and -developmental outcome or epilepsy. The estimated annual mortality rate of neonatal stroke is 3.49/100,000 annually. Current treatment options for PAIS mainly focus on controlling convulsions and associated infections. There is no treatment available that leads to reduction of neonatal brain damage in this severely affected group of infants. This leads to life-long consequences of PAIS and forms a large burden for patients and society. The overall aim of this project is to meet this need by developing a cell based treatment strategy. Animal models of neonatal brain injury provide evidence for the feasibility and efficacy of intranasal mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) application in the treatment of PAIS. Additionally, results from human trials with MSCs in the treatment of adult stroke or other pathologic conditions provide evidence that MSC treatment is safe. This project aims at making the first step towards clinical application of MSCs to treat PAIS. Successful completion of this project will provide the first evidence of the safety and feasibility of MSCs to treat brain damage in newborn infants. This study will assess safety and feasibility of bone marrow-derived allogeneic MSCs, administered by the nasal route, in neonates who suffered from PAIS.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* (Near-)Term infants, ≥36+0 weeks of gestation, admitted to one of the Dutch Neonatal Intensive Care Units, diagnosed with PAIS, confirmed by MRI within 3 days after presentation with clinical symptoms.
* PAIS as characterized by a predominantly unilateral ischemic lesion within the territory of the middle cerebral artery, with involvement of the corticospinal tracts, cortex, white matter and basal ganglia.
* Written informed consent from custodial parent(s).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Any proven or suspected congenital anomaly, chromosomal disorder, metabolic disorder.
* Presence of an infection of the central nervous system.
* No realistic prospect of survival, (e.g. severe brain injury), at the discretion of the attending physician.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of Participants With Adverse Events Related to Intranasal MSC Treatment (Safety and Tolerability) in the Acute Setting.
timeFrame: 24 hours after treatment
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Number of Participants With Adverse Events Related to Intranasal MSC Treatment (Safety and Tolerability) in the Subacute/Long-term Setting
timeFrame: 3 months postnatal age
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Utrecht
country: Netherlands
facility: Wilhelmina Childrens Hostpital/University Medical Center Utrecht
Study officials:
affiliation: UMC Utrecht
name: Manon Benders, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: UMC Utrecht
name: Floris Groenendaal, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: UMC Utrecht
name: Frank van Bel, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: UMC Utrecht
name: Cora Nijboer, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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