A Study Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Deferasirox in Patients With Transfusion-dependent Iron Overload

Summary

This study uses a single arm, multi-center, open-label trial design. The study will assess the efficacy and safety of 52 weeks of treatment with deferasirox (ICL670) in patients with evidence of transfusion induced iron overload.

Timeline

Start

2005-04

Primary completion

2009-05

Completion

2010-07

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper Overall, there was a significant reduction in serum ferritin from baseline (-264 ng/mL; P<0.0001) PMID 19951979 ↗

Publications

• Porter JB, El-Alfy M, Viprakasit V, Giraudier S, Chan LL, Lai Y, El-Ali A, Han J, Cappellini MD. Utility of labile plasma iron and transferrin saturation in addition to serum ferritin as iron overload markers in different underlying anemias before and after deferasirox treatment. Eur J Haematol. 2016 Jan;96(1):19-26. doi: 10.1111/ejh.12540. Epub 2015 Jun 23.
• Lee JW, Yoon SS, Shen ZX, Ganser A, Hsu HC, El-Ali A, Habr D, Martin N, Porter JB. Hematologic responses in patients with aplastic anemia treated with deferasirox: a post hoc analysis from the EPIC study. Haematologica. 2013 Jul;98(7):1045-8. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2012.077669. Epub 2013 Apr 12.
• Pennell DJ, Porter JB, Cappellini MD, Chan LL, El-Beshlawy A, Aydinok Y, Ibrahim H, Li CK, Viprakasit V, Elalfy MS, Kattamis A, Smith G, Habr D, Domokos G, Roubert B, Taher A. Continued improvement in myocardial T2* over two years of deferasirox therapy in beta-thalassemia major patients with cardiac iron overload. Haematologica. 2011 Jan;96(1):48-54. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2010.031468. Epub 2010 Nov 11.
• Lee JW, Yoon SS, Shen ZX, Ganser A, Hsu HC, Habr D, Domokos G, Roubert B, Porter JB; EPIC study investigators. Iron chelation therapy with deferasirox in patients with aplastic anemia: a subgroup analysis of 116 patients from the EPIC trial. Blood. 2010 Oct 7;116(14):2448-54. doi: 10.1182/blood-2010-01-261289. Epub 2010 Jun 21.
• Pennell DJ, Porter JB, Cappellini MD, El-Beshlawy A, Chan LL, Aydinok Y, Elalfy MS, Sutcharitchan P, Li CK, Ibrahim H, Viprakasit V, Kattamis A, Smith G, Habr D, Domokos G, Roubert B, Taher A. Efficacy of deferasirox in reducing and preventing cardiac iron overload in beta-thalassemia. Blood. 2010 Mar 25;115(12):2364-71. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-04-217455. Epub 2009 Dec 8.
• Cappellini MD, Porter J, El-Beshlawy A, Li CK, Seymour JF, Elalfy M, Gattermann N, Giraudier S, Lee JW, Chan LL, Lin KH, Rose C, Taher A, Thein SL, Viprakasit V, Habr D, Domokos G, Roubert B, Kattamis A; EPIC Study Investigators. Tailoring iron chelation by iron intake and serum ferritin: the prospective EPIC study of deferasirox in 1744 patients with transfusion-dependent anemias. Haematologica. 2010 Apr;95(4):557-66. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2009.014696. Epub 2009 Nov 30.

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