Five-Year Actively Controlled Clinical Trial in New Onset Juvenile Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Nephritis

Summary

This is a 5-year project, involving 185 partners from 46 countries (110 in 21 EU States and 75 in 25 extra-EU States), with a randomised clinical trials (RCT) in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (JSLE): 5-year phase III single-blind, RCT in children with newly diagnosed, WHO class III, IV JSLE proliferative nephritis: PDN and oral cyclophosphamide (CYC) versus high dose intravenous (iv) CYC versus intermediate dose iv CYC, followed by maintenance with azathioprine.The trial is aimed to find out the treatment regimen associated with the lowest occurrence of flare and the lowest drug related toxicity.

Timeline

Start

2006-06

Primary completion

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Completion

2007-06

Publications

• Background Ruperto N, Ravelli A, Murray KJ, Lovell DJ, Andersson-Gare B, Feldman BM, Garay S, Kuis W, Machado C, Pachman L, Prieur AM, Rider LG, Silverman E, Tsitsami E, Woo P, Giannini EH, Martini A; Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization (PRINTO); Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group (PRCSG). Preliminary core sets of measures for disease activity and damage assessment in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus and juvenile dermatomyositis. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2003 Dec;42(12):1452-9. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keg403. Epub 2003 Jun 27.
• Background Ruperto N, Ravelli A, Cuttica R, Espada G, Ozen S, Porras O, Sztajnbok F, Falcini F, Kasapcopur O, Venning H, Bica B, Merino R, Coto C, Ros J, Susic G, Gamir ML, Minden K, See Y, Uziel Y, Mukamel M, Riley P, Zulian F, Olivieri AN, Cimaz R, Girschick H, Rumba I, Cavuto S, Pistorio A, Lovell DJ, Martini A; Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization (PRINTO); Pediatric Rheumatology Collaborative Study Group (PRCSG). The Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization criteria for the evaluation of response to therapy in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus: prospective validation of the disease activity core set. Arthritis Rheum. 2005 Sep;52(9):2854-64. doi: 10.1002/art.21230.
• Background Ruperto N, Ravelli A, Oliveira S, Alessio M, Mihaylova D, Pasic S, Cortis E, Apaz M, Burgos-Vargas R, Kanakoudi-Tsakalidou F, Norambuena X, Corona F, Gerloni V, Hagelberg S, Aggarwal A, Dolezalova P, Saad CM, Bae SC, Vesely R, Avcin T, Foster H, Duarte C, Herlin T, Horneff G, Lepore L, van Rossum M, Trail L, Pistorio A, Andersson-Gare B, Giannini EH, Martini A; Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization. The Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization/American College of Rheumatology provisional criteria for the evaluation of response to therapy in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus: prospective validation of the definition of improvement. Arthritis Rheum. 2006 Jun 15;55(3):355-63. doi: 10.1002/art.22002.
• Background Boumpas DT, Austin HA 3rd, Vaughn EM, Klippel JH, Steinberg AD, Yarboro CH, Balow JE. Controlled trial of pulse methylprednisolone versus two regimens of pulse cyclophosphamide in severe lupus nephritis. Lancet. 1992 Sep 26;340(8822):741-5. doi: 10.1016/0140-6736(92)92292-n.
• Background Gourley MF, Austin HA 3rd, Scott D, Yarboro CH, Vaughan EM, Muir J, Boumpas DT, Klippel JH, Balow JE, Steinberg AD. Methylprednisolone and cyclophosphamide, alone or in combination, in patients with lupus nephritis. A randomized, controlled trial. Ann Intern Med. 1996 Oct 1;125(7):549-57. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-7-199610010-00003.
• Background Contreras G, Pardo V, Leclercq B, Lenz O, Tozman E, O'Nan P, Roth D. Sequential therapies for proliferative lupus nephritis. N Engl J Med. 2004 Mar 4;350(10):971-80. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa031855.
• Background Houssiau FA, Vasconcelos C, D'Cruz D, Sebastiani GD, Garrido Ed Ede R, Danieli MG, Abramovicz D, Blockmans D, Mathieu A, Direskeneli H, Galeazzi M, Gul A, Levy Y, Petera P, Popovic R, Petrovic R, Sinico RA, Cattaneo R, Font J, Depresseux G, Cosyns JP, Cervera R. Immunosuppressive therapy in lupus nephritis: the Euro-Lupus Nephritis Trial, a randomized trial of low-dose versus high-dose intravenous cyclophosphamide. Arthritis Rheum. 2002 Aug;46(8):2121-31. doi: 10.1002/art.10461.
• Background Mok CC, Ho CT, Siu YP, Chan KW, Kwan TH, Lau CS, Wong RW, Au TC. Treatment of diffuse proliferative lupus glomerulonephritis: a comparison of two cyclophosphamide-containing regimens. Am J Kidney Dis. 2001 Aug;38(2):256-64. doi: 10.1053/ajkd.2001.26084.
• Background Yee CS, Gordon C, Dostal C, Petera P, Dadoniene J, Griffiths B, Rozman B, Isenberg DA, Sturfelt G, Nived O, Turney JH, Venalis A, Adu D, Smolen JS, Emery P. EULAR randomised controlled trial of pulse cyclophosphamide and methylprednisolone versus continuous cyclophosphamide and prednisolone followed by azathioprine and prednisolone in lupus nephritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2004 May;63(5):525-9. doi: 10.1136/ard.2002.003574.

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