Clinical trial NCT01511263: Epigallocatechingallate (EGCG) in Cardiac AL Amyloidosis
Official title: A Phase II Open-label Randomized Study of Dietary Supplement With Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) to Improve Cardiac Dysfunction in Patients With AL Amyloidosis Who do Not Require Chemotherapy (EpiCardiAL)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: TERMINATED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Primary Amyloidosis of Light Chain Type
Keywords: Epigallocatechin gallate
AL amyloidosis
Lead sponsor: Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2012-01-18
Enrollment: 86
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: In a proportion of patients with AL amyloidosis there is no improvement of cardiac function despite hematologic response to treatment. The aim of the study is to assess whether treatment with EGCG increases the rate of cardiac response in patients with AL amyloidosis who completed chemotherapy.

Detailed description: This will be a phase II open-label randomized trial. Patients with AL amyloidosis and cardiac involvement who have achieved at least partial hematologic response after chemotherapy will be randomized to receive standard supportive therapy (SST) or SST plus Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). After giving written informed consent, the patients will be evaluated for eligibility. Briefly, the subjects with a biopsy-proven diagnosis of AL amyloidosis who achieved at least partial response after chemotherapy, who are not planned to receive further chemotherapy and who have significant cardiac dysfunction will be considered eligible. The patients will be stratified according to the quality of hematologic response and to the severity of cardiac involvement. Following stratification, the patients will be randomized to receive SST or SST plus EGCG. The study comprises 3 periods: screening (including stratification and randomization), treatment (with evaluations of response every 2 months) followed by the end-of-treatment evaluation and follow-up. Therapy will continue for up to 1 year. After treatment patients will be followed for 3 years.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Diagnosis of AL amyloidosis.
* Age ≥18 years.
* The patients must have been treated for AL amyloidosis attaining hematologic response.
* Evidence of cardiac involvement at echocardiography (mean left ventricular wall thickness \>12 mm in the absence of other causes).
* NT-proBNP ≥650 ng/L

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non-AL (e.g. familial, senile) amyloidosis.
* Concomitant non-amyloid related clinically significant cardiac diseases.
* Need of further chemotherapy for AL amyloidosis.
* Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) \<30 mL/min per 1.73 m2.
* Uncontrolled infection.
* Inability to give informed consent.
* Previous or ongoing psychiatric illness (excluding reactive depression).
* Pregnant or nursing women.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Cardiac response
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Rate of adverse events
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Rate of cardiac progression
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Time to cardiac progression
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Rate of cardiac events
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Time to cardiac events
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Survival
timeFrame: 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Pavia
country: Italy
facility: Centro per lo Studio e la Cura delle Amiloidosi Sistemiche - Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico S.Matteo
Study officials:
References:
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