Clinical trial NCT03069703: Innovative Anti-pneumococcal Vaccine Strategies in Patients With ANCA-associated Vasculitis Receiving Rituximab Therapy
Official title: Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Immunogenicity and Safety of Two Innovative Anti-pneumococcal Vaccine Strategies to Standard Vaccination Regimen in Patients With ANCA-associated Vasculitis Receiving Rituximab Therapy
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Invasive Pneumococcal Infection
Keywords: Vaccine
ANCA- associated vasculitides
pneumovax
prevenar
pneumovas
Lead sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: EUCLID Clinical Trial Platform
name: Recherche Clinique Paris Descartes Necker Cochin Sainte Anne
name: CIC 1417 Cochin-Pasteur
name: Groupe Français d'Etude des Vascularites (GFEV)
First posted: 2017-03-03
Enrollment: 96
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The study hypothesis is that a "reinforced" pneumococcal combined vaccine strategy in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitides treated with rituximab will induce a better immune response than the current standard regimen, with an acceptable safety profile.

This study therefore aims at evaluating the immunogenicity and safety of two "reinforced" innovative pneumococcal vaccine regimen \[one double dose at day0 and one double dose at day7 or a quadruple dose of 13-valent anti-pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) followed by one dose of 23-valent unconjugated vaccine (PPV23) at month 5\], compared to the standard regimen (one dose of PCV13 followed by one dose of PPV23 at month 5), in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitides receiving rituximab therapy.

Detailed description: Description of research methodology

Experimental plan This is a comparative, multicenter, prospective, randomized, open label, phase 2 trial in France, comparing two innovative "reinforced" anti-pneumococcal vaccine strategies to standard vaccination regimen in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitides receiving rituximab therapy.

Participants will be randomized 1:1:1 to three parallel arms to receive:

* Arm A (standard vaccination regimen): prime-boost strategy combining a single dose of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (Prevenar, PCV13) at Day 0 (lying within a window of ± 2 days of the first infusion of rituximab), followed by a single dose of 23-valent unconjugated vaccine (Pneumovax, PPV23) at month 5 (M5)
* Arm B (innovative vaccine strategy 1): prime-boost strategy combining 2 doses of PCV13 at Day 0 and 2 doses of PCV13 at Day 7, followed by a single dose of PPV23 at M5
* Arm C (innovative vaccine strategy 2): prime-boost strategy combining 4 doses of PCV13 at Day 0, followed by a single dose of PPV23 at M5

All participants will receive rituximab at 375 mg/m2/week for 4 consecutive weeks, at Days 0 ± 2 days, Day 7 ± 2 days, Day 14 ± 2 days and Day 21 ± 2 days, as induction therapy of vasculitis flare, followed by 500 mg-rituximab infusion every 6 months as maintenance therapy, i.e. at Month 6, Month 12 and Month 18 (Stone, NEJM, 2010, Jones, NEJM, 2010; Guillevin, NEJM, 2014), as recommended.

Day 0 will be defined as the first vaccine injection (within ± 2 days of the first infusion of rituximab).

PCV13 vaccine injections will be performed at Day 0, and at Day 7 ± 1 day in the Arm B. PPV23 injections will be performed at M5 ± 7 days in all arms.

Analysis of immune responses will be performed in a centralized laboratory blinded for the trial arm, by ELISA at Day 0 (pre-vaccination sample), M1, M5, M6, M12, and M18 for the 12 serotypes common to both conjugate and unconjugated vaccines, by OPA at Day 0, M6, M12, and M18 for the 12 serotypes common to both conjugate and unconjugated vaccines, and by ELISA at Day 0 and M6 for the 3 specific serotypes of PPV23.

Safety monitoring Relevant adverse events related to vaccination will be continuously monitored throughout the trial, and pausing rules have been specified in the protocol that trigger an ad-hoc iDSMB meeting in case of any safety concern

Number of participating centres

This multicenter research will involve the participation of the French Vasculitis Study Group (FVSG) network, which includes more than 100 clinical departments involved in the management of ANCA-associated vasculitides.

As previous trials conducted by the FVSG on this topic, around 50 centers will participate in the PNEUMOVAS research.

Randomization Participants who fulfill all eligibility criteria for the study will be enrolled and randomized in a ratio of 1:1:1 between the three different parallel arms.

Randomization will be stratified on: personal history of PPV23 injection and age (≥ 65 or \< 65 years).

Blinding methods and provisions put in place to maintain blinding

Trial participants and site staff are not blinded to the vaccine arm. The central laboratory performing the immunogenicity assessment (ELISA and OPA) will be blinded for the trial arm in order to limit measurement bias.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Participants with a diagnosis of ANCA-associated vasculitis, either granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA, Wegener) or microscopic polyangiitis (MPA), according to ACR 1990 criteria and/or revised Chapel Hill Consensus Conference definitions and/or European Medical Agency algorithm
2. Participants (males and females) aged of 18 years or older
3. Participants with childbearing potential having reliable contraception for all the duration of the study, such as established use of oral, injected or implanted hormonal methods of contraception; placement of an intrauterine device (IUD) or intrauterine system (IUS); barrier methods: condom or occlusive cap (diaphragm or cervical/vault caps) with spermicidal foam/gel/film/cream/suppository; male partner sterilization (the vasectomized partner should be the sole partner for that subject); surgical sterilization (hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy, tubal ligation) or true abstinence (when this is in line with the preferred and usual lifestyle of the subject) prior to enrollment at D0
4. Participants with newly-diagnosed disease at the time of inclusion or presenting with a relapse of the disease. For relapsing patients, maintenance therapy at stable dose during the last 3 months will be admitted : prednisone dose ≤10 mg/day, azathioprine dose ≤3 mg/kg/day, methotrexate dose ≤25 mg/week, or mycophenolate mofetil dose ≤3 g/j
5. Participants with an active disease defined as a BVAS ≥ 3
6. Participants planned to receive rituximab as induction therapy using the recommended regimen (i.e. 375 mg/m2/week for 4 consecutive weeks)
7. Participants able to give written informed consent prior to participation in the study
8. Participants covered by social security regimen or equivalent

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Participants with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA, Churg-Strauss) or other vasculitis
2. Participants with acute infections or chronic active infections at inclusion visit.
3. Documented positive serology result for HIV, HBV (Ag Hbs), HCV at inclusion.
4. Participants with disease associated with decreased immune response (splenectomy, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, primary immune deficiency such as common variable immunodeficiency, cancer within the previous 5 years, drepanocytosis),
5. Participants treated with rituximab within the previous 12 months,
6. Participants who have received blood, blood products, and/or plasma derivatives including parenteral immunoglobulin preparations in the past 3 months before enrolment.
7. Participants treated with new other immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory agents within the previous 3 months (including cyclophosphamide, anti-TNF-alpha, intravenous immunoglobulins, abatacept),
8. Participants treated with prednisone dose \>10 mg/day for a duration greater than 21 days before inclusion,
9. Participants with vaccination with a conjugate anti-pneumococcal vaccine at any time,
10. Participants with vaccination with PPV23 within the previous 3 years,
11. . Participants who have received any another vaccines within 4 weeks prior to enrolment or who are planning to receive any vaccine within the first 6 months of the study (except annual influenza vaccination and hepatitis B virus vaccination which are permitted before and after each vaccination visit of the study and then allowed at any time during the study follow up).
12. Pregnant women and lactation,
13. Participants with contraindication to use rituximab,
14. Participants with contraindication to intramuscular injections (hemophilia, anticoagulant therapy (excepted if subcutaneously), thrombocytopenia \< 50 000/mm3).
15. Participants with hypersensitivity to previous vaccination
16. Participants with hypersensitivity to aluminium phosphate, phenol or protein CRM197 protein from Corynebacterium diphtheria.
17. Participants included in another investigational therapeutic study in the month prior D0. Participation to an observational research is allowed.
18. Participants under legal guardianship or incapacitation

Primary outcomes:
measure: Immunogenicity
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Local and/or systemic solicited reactions 7 days following each vaccination
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Any adverse event during the trial related or possibly related to vaccine immunization
timeFrame: 18 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Any adverse event during the trial related to vaccine immunization and leading to discontinuation of the immunization regimen
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Any serious adverse event during the study, regardless of the relationship to vaccine immunisation
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Proportion of patients with vasculitis flare according to EULAR criteria during the study period, and time to disease relapse.
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Titer of specific IgG against the 12 serotypes common to both conjugate and unconjugated vaccines (1, 3, 4, 5, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19 A, 19F and 23F) measured by OPA at Day 0 and M6
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Titer of specific IgG against the 3 specific serotypes of PPV23 (10A, 12F et 15B) at Day 0 and M6
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Titer of specific IgG against the 12 serotypes common to both conjugate and unconjugated vaccines (1, 3, 4, 5, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19 A, 19F and 23F) measured by ELISA at M1 and M5
timeFrame: 5 months
measure: Titer of specific IgG against the 12 serotypes common to both conjugate and unconjugated vaccines (1, 3, 4, 5, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19 A, 19F and 23F) measured by ELISA at M12 and M18
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Titer of specific IgG against the 12 serotypes common to both conjugate and unconjugated vaccines (1, 3, 4, 5, 6B, 7F, 9V, 14, 18C, 19 A, 19F and 23F) measured by OPA at M12 and M18
timeFrame: 18 months
measure: Frequency of occurrence of invasive pneumococcal infections in the different vaccine strategies
timeFrame: 18 months
Locations:
city: Paris
country: France
facility: Pôle de Médecine Interne, Centre de référence " Maladies systémiques et autoimmunes rares, en particulier Vascularites nécrosantes et Sclérodermies systémiques " Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
Study officials:
affiliation: Pôle de Médecine Interne, Centre de référence " Maladies systémiques et autoimmunes rares, en particulier Vascularites nécrosantes et Sclérodermies systémiques " Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
name: Benjamin TERRIER, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Laboratoire d'Immunologie Plateforme d'immunomonitoring vaccinal Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
name: Fréderic BATTEUX, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Centre d'Investigation Clinique Cochin Pasteur Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
name: Odile LAUNAY, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Hôpital Foch
name: Matthieu GROH, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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