Clinical trial NCT01442025: Study Investigating Tailored Treatment With Infliximab for Active Crohn's Disease
Official title: A Randomized Controlled Trial Investigating Tailored Treatment With Infliximab for Active Luminal Crohn's Disease
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE4
Conditions: Crohn's Disease
Keywords: Crohn's Disease
IFX trough level
Lead sponsor: Groupe d'Etude Therapeutique des Affections Inflammatoires Digestives
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2011-09-28
Enrollment: 121
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: To investigate whether sustained trough levels of IFX can be achieved using IFX (Infliximab) trough level measurements and adjustment of dosing based upon these levels by means of two different standardized algorithms in comparison with 'standard of care' IFX treatment and its effects on clinical and endoscopic outcomes.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age \> 18 years
* Active CD (CDAI\>220) and signs of active inflammation as evidenced by elevated serum hsCRP levels (\>5 mg/L) and/or elevated fecal calprotectin levels (\>250 µg/g) and endoscopically visible ulcers.
* Patients must be naïve to biologics with indication for starting anti-TNF therapy in accordance with national reimbursement criteria.
* Patients must be naïve to thiopurines or have failed therapy with thiopurines (in which case AZA will be continued).
* Ongoing steroids are allowed if at stable dose for at least 2 weeks and at a maximum of prednisone 40 mg/d or budesonide 9 mg/day.
* Patients who consent to receiving Infliximab 5 mg/kg at week 0, 2 and 6 and further on every 8 weeks in conjunction with azathioprine (2,5 mg/kg/day). Patients who develop AZA intolerance during the trial are continued in the trial without AZA (ie IFX monotherapy).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Absence of endoscopically visible ulcers
* Prior exposure to infliximab (other biologics allowed)
* Ongoing steroid therapy at doses \> 40 mg/d prednisolone equivalent
* Previous intolerance to azathioprine leading to drug discontinuation
* Ongoing infections
* Positive tuberculosis screen per local guidelines
* Serious other diseases including cancer in the 5 years prior to inclusion excluding non-melanoma skin cancer
* Indication for immediate surgery
* Pregnant or breast-feeding woman.
* Positive fecal culture for Salmonella, Shigella, Yersinia and Campylobacter and/or presence of Clostridium difficile B toxin in the stools
* Active tuberculosis
* Untreated latent tuberculosis (see national recommendations. Appendix 2).
* Non-compliant subjects.
* Participation in another therapeutic study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Level of remission
timeFrame: 54 weeks after Inclusion
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Clinical remission
timeFrame: week 14 after inclusion
measure: Endoscopic evaluation
timeFrame: week 0, week 12 and week 54
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Amiens
country: France
facility: Chu Amiens
city: Clermont-ferrand
country: France
facility: Chu Clermont-Ferrand
city: Clichy
country: France
facility: Hopital Beaujon
city: Lille
country: France
facility: CHRU Lille
city: Nice
country: France
facility: CHU NICE
city: Paris
country: France
facility: Hopital Saint Louis
city: Pessac
country: France
facility: CHU Bordeaux - Pessac
city: Reims
country: France
facility: Chu Reims
city: Rennes
country: France
facility: Chu Rennes
city: Toulouse
country: France
facility: Chu Toulouse
city: Tours
country: France
facility: Chu Tours
city: Vandoeuvre Les Nancy
country: France
facility: Chu Nancy
Study officials:
affiliation: Groupe d'Etude Therapeutique des Affections Inflammatoires Digestives
name: Geert D'Haens, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Groupe d'Etude Therapeutique des Affections Inflammatoires Digestives
name: David Laharie
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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