Clinical trial NCT05279079: Markers in Acute Pancreatitis-1
Official title: International Prospective Evaluation of Novel Biomarkers to Detect and Predict the Severity of Drug- Associated Acute Pancreatitis in Adults
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Conditions: Acute Pancreatitis Drug-Induced
Lead sponsor: University of Liverpool
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Innovative Medicines Initiative
name: TransBioLine Consortium
name: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
name: Klinikum der Universität München
name: Hospital Regional de Malaga
First posted: 2022-03-15
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Adult participants aged 18 years or more, comprised of 6 Groups:

Group 1: Drug-associated AP Group 2: Other cause AP Group 3: Chronic pancreatitis Group 4: Pancreas Cancer Group 5: Diabetes mellitus Grouip 6: Healthy volunteers

Brief summary: Prospective, multi-national, multi-centre observational diagnostic study of novel microRNA and protein biomarkers in peripheral blood and/or urine to detect and predict the severity of drug-associated acute pancreatitis (AP), with comparison of the same biomarkers in patients with acute pancreatitis from other causes, chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, diabetes mellitus and healthy volunteers.

Detailed description: The MAP-1 study is designed to validate microRNA and/or pancreatic digestive enzyme biomarkers for the detection and severity assessment of drug-associated AP, for application to the assessment of adverse reactions to drugs in development or drugs already developed for other indications. The study will also assess the clinical utility of these biomarkers in AP from other causes, but is not designed to determine whether the biomarkers could be used in place of amylase and/or lipase in the standard clinical diagnosis of AP or to distinguish between the many differential diagnoses of AP. Selection is in progress of the microRNAs and pancreatic digestive enzyme biomarkers to be validated in this study, this selection being made from prospectively biobank samples obtained in a separate observational study that has separate ethical approval.

The pre-selected microRNAs and pancreatic digestive enzymes will be measured in the blood and urine of patients on admission to hospital with drug-associated acute pancreatitis (Group 1, 75 participants in receipt of one or more drugs on a defined list of drugs associated with acute pancreatitis) or other cause acute pancreatitis (Group 2, 250 participants not in receipt of any of the defined drugs). The same biomarkers will also be measured in blood and urine samples from contrast groups of patients with chronic pancreatitis (Group 3, 25 participants), pancreas cancer (Group 4, 25 participants), type I or II diabetes mellitus (Group 5, 25 participants) and healthy volunteers (Group 6, 100 participants). All participants will be at least 18 years old. MicroRNAs will be measured by quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and pancreatic enzymes by mass spectrometry.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Drug-associated AP: patients ≥18 years old undergoing drug treatment that has a defined risk of AP prior to and at the onset of AP and admitted to recruiting hospitals with a diagnosis of AP established by two of: (i) typical continuous upper abdominal pain (in this study for up to 2 days in duration prior to admission); (ii) amylase and/or lipase 3 or more times the upper limit of normal; (iii) characteristic findings on abdominal imaging (if undertaken urgently by computerised tomography scan (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); and who undergo their first study blood sampling within 24 hours of admission to hospital.
2. Other cause AP: patients ≥18 years old not undergoing drug treatment that has a defined risk of AP and admitted to recruiting hospitals with a diagnosis of AP established by two of: (i) typical continuous upper abdominal pain (in this study for up to 2 days in duration prior to admission); (ii) amylase and/or lipase 3 or more times the upper limit of normal; (iii) characteristic findings on abdominal imaging (if undertaken urgently by CT or MRI) and undergo their first study blood sampling within 24 hours of hospital admission.
3. Chronic pancreatitis: patients with symptomatic chronic pancreatitis and diagnostic abnormalities identified by CT and/or MRI and who undergo study blood sampling as an outpatient.
4. Pancreatic cancer: patients presenting with biopsy-proven or presumed pancreatic cancer and who undergo study blood sampling as an outpatient; in patients with a presumptive diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, blood and urine samples will be analysed after histological confirmation.
5. Diabetes mellitus: adult patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus treated with insulin and/or oral anti-hyperglycaemic medication for at least 3 months and ongoing and who undergo study blood sampling as an outpatient.
6. Healthy volunteers: normal, healthy individuals aged ≥18 years old without evidence of systemic disease who have required no hospital intervention within the last year and received no drug treatment within the last 3 months and are severe acute respiratory distress syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) negative.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Drug-associated AP: onset of continuous abdominal pain more than 2 days prior to admission to hospital; known previous AP within the last 3 months; known chronic pancreatitis; known pancreatic or hepatobiliary malignancy; previous necrosectomy or pancreatic surgery; known prior type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus. Patients will not be excluded if they are undergoing drug treatment that has a defined risk of AP prior to and at the onset of AP and an alternative cause for AP is identified (including after recruitment and blood sampling).
2. Other cause AP: undergoing drug treatment that has a defined risk of AP (such patients should be considered for recruitment into Group 2); onset of continuous abdominal pain more than 2 days prior to admission to hospital; known previous AP within the last 3 months; known chronic pancreatitis; known pancreatic or hepatobiliary malignancy; previous necrosectomy or pancreatic surgery; type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus.
3. Chronic pancreatitis: hospital admission with AP within the last three months; known pancreatic or hepatobiliary malignancy; previous necrosectomy or pancreatic surgery; type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus.
4. Pancreatic cancer: hospital admission with AP within the last 3 months; known chronic pancreatitis; previous necrosectomy or pancreatic surgery and/or chemotherapy prior to sampling; type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus.
5. Diabetes mellitus: hospital admission with AP within the last 3 months; known type 3c diabetes mellitus; known history of acute or chronic pancreatitis; known history of cystic fibrosis, known history of pancreatic or hepatobiliary malignancy; known history of necrosectomy or pancreatic surgery; gestational diabetes mellitus; monogenic diabetes mellitus syndromes; post-transplantation diabetes mellitus; diabetes mellitus attributed to drugs or toxins.
6. Healthy volunteers: abnormal physical examination, abnormal routine haematology, urea, electrolytes and/or liver function tests; evidence of systemic disease; solid or haematological neoplasia within the last 5 years; hospital intervention within last 12 months; scheduled drug treatment within last 3 months and/or as required drug treatment within the last 4 weeks; infection or other sources of acute inflammation within the last 3 months.

Primary outcomes:
measure: MicroRNA panel
timeFrame: Day of admission
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Pancreatic enzyme biomarker
timeFrame: Day of admission
measure: MicroRNA panel
timeFrame: Days 4 and 14 after admission
measure: Severity of AP
timeFrame: Within 90 days of admission
measure: Patient reported outcome
timeFrame: Days 4 and 14
measure: Progress of MAP-1
timeFrame: Two years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Munich
country: Germany
facility: LMU Klinikum München
state: Bavaria
city: Málaga
country: Spain
facility: Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga
city: Liverpool
country: United Kingdom
facility: Royal Liverpool University Hospital
state: Merseyside
city: Liverpool
country: United Kingdom
facility: Aintree University Hospital
state: Merseyside
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Liverpool
name: Robert Sutton, MD FRCS PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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