Clinical trial NCT05764993: Prevalence of Humoral Dysfunction in Pts With Frequent Exacerbations of COPD, and the Effect of SCIgR for Prevention
Official title: Prevalence of Humoral Immune Deficiency in Patients With Frequent Exacerbations of COPD, and the Effect of Immunoglobulin Replacement on Future Exacerbations
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: COPD Exacerbation Acute
Keywords: humoral dysfunction
humoral immune function
Lead sponsor: Rochester General Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Takeda
First posted: 2023-03-13
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 82
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: non-blinded, randomized study. Patients with COPD will be referred for evaluation by outpatient pulmonary clinics at Rochester Regional health. Following informed consent all patients will be evaluated by checking serum IgG, IgM, and IgA, as well as baseline and post-vaccine IgG to peptides antigens (diphtheria and tetanus) with Td as well as polysaccharide antigens (streptococcus pneumoniae) with pneumococcus polyvalent vaccine-23 (PPV23). Patients with COPD and pre-defined humoral dysfunction (please see below) will be randomized in 1:1 ratio to one of two groups until approximately 20 patients per group are accrued for a total of 40 patients
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: To examine the prevalence of humoral immunodeficiency in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) by evaluating both immunoglobulin levels and vaccine responses. Patients with COPD and humoral dysfunction will be offered treatment with Subcutaneous Immune Globulin Replacement Therapy (SCIgR) in an attempt to decrease future AECOPD.

Detailed description: This will be a non-blinded, randomized study. Patients with COPD will be referred for evaluation by outpatient pulmonary clinics at Rochester Regional health. Following informed consent all patients will be evaluated by checking serum IgG, IgM, and IgA, as well as baseline and post-vaccine IgG to peptides antigens (diphtheria and tetanus) with Td as well as polysaccharide antigens (streptococcus pneumoniae) with pneumococcus polyvalent vaccine-23 (PPV23). Patients with COPD and pre-defined humoral dysfunction (please see below) will be randomized in 1:1 ratio to one of two groups until approximately 20 patients per group are accrued for a total of 40 patients

Group #1: SCIgR with Cuvitru 125 mg/kg/week + standard of care management = 20 patients

Group #2: Standard of care management = 20 patients

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria:

1. Patients \> 18 years and ≤ 82 years old.
2. Patient that meet three (3) or more of the five (5) following criteria.

   1. Dyspnea ≥ 5 on a visual analog scale
   2. Respiratory rate ≥ 24 breaths per minute
   3. Heart rate ≥ 95 beats per minute
   4. Resting SaO2 \< 92% breathing ambient air of the patient's usual oxygen prescription and/or change in saturation \> 3% from baseline
   5. CRP ≥ 10 mg/L
3. Established diagnosis of COPD with PFTs showing FEV1/FVC \< 70% or FEV1/VC ratio below the 5th percentile of the predicted value.\[14\]
4. Subjects must have adherence with triple therapy \[Inhaled Corticosteroid (ICS), Long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist (LABA), Long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA)\] for greater than 90 Days prior to consideration of participation in this study.
5. With triple therapy onboard, the subject must have ≥ 2 steroid-requiring exacerbations (defined by increased respiratory symptoms of increased cough, dyspnea, sputum, sputum purulence, wheeze, chest tightness) requiring treatment with systemic steroids within the past 12 months OR one exacerbation requiring inpatient hospitalization
6. Medically stable with no acute hospitalizations for non-COPD related events within the last 3 months
7. Expected life expectancy \> 1 year
8. Stable Cardiovascular Disease, with no planned intervention
9. No history of pulmonary embolism or embolic event
10. Hepatic function \< Class B Child-Pugh criteria
11. Renal insufficiency with eGFR \> 60 mL/min/1.73m2
12. No history of DVT or thrombotic events
13. No history of prior organ transplant
14. Female subjects of childbearing potential will need to have a negative pregnancy test performed within 14 days prior to study procedure (if applicable) and be adherent to an accepted method of contraception.
15. Male subject will need to adhere to barrier contraception during the course of the trial and for 1 month after completion of the final injection of Cuvitru.
16. Ability to sign informed consent

Exclusion criteria:

1. Known history of humoral dysfunction/immunodeficiency
2. Known hereditary/genetic/congenital defects, and autoimmune disease including hereditary spherocytosis, hereditary elliptocytosis, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, and sickle cell disease
3. Ongoing or recent therapy with immunoglobulin replacement therapy within the past 6 months
4. Chronic oral steroid use of prednisone treatment of ≥20 mg daily (or equivalent) will be excluded to ensure subject is medically stable.
5. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
6. Obesity with a BMI \> 40
7. Unstable hypertension systolic blood pressure (SBP) \>160 mmHg upon repeated measure
8. Diabetes mellitus Type I
9. Known history of acquired or inherited thrombophilia disorders
10. Known risk factors of hemolysis, including G6PD deficiency, mitral valve replacement, aortic valve replacement.
11. Known prolonged periods of immobilization
12. Known severe hypovolemia noted by SBP ≤ 85 and/or heart rate (HR) \>130
13. Known hypercoagulable conditions
14. Use of estrogens
15. Indwelling central vascular catheters
16. Currently actively smoking

Primary outcomes:
measure: AECOPD requiring treatment with systemic steroids over one year
timeFrame: one year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: COPD with pre-defined humoral dysfunction treated with subcutaneous SCIgR will have decreased AECOPD events as compared to COPD with pre-defined humoral dysfunction treated with the standard of care (SOC) management.
timeFrame: one year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Rochester
country: United States
facility: Rochester Regional Health Ctr for Clinical Research - Alexander Park
state: New York
city: Rochester
country: United States
facility: Rochester Regional Health - Ctr for Clinical Research - Linden Oaks
state: New York
city: Rochester
country: United States
facility: Rochester Regional Health - Ctr for Clinical Research - Greece
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: Rochester General Hospital
name: Syed S Mustafa, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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