Therapy of Chronic Cold Agglutinin Disease With Eculizumab

Summary

Evaluation of the efficacy and safety of eculizumab in symptomatic or transfusion-dependent patients with untreated or refractory hemolytic cold agglutinin disease(CAD)

Timeline

Start

2011-01

Primary completion

2014-09

Completion

2015-06

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper The median lactate dehydrogenase level decreased from 572 U/L (interquartile range [IQR], 534-685) to 334 U/L (IQR, 243-567; P = .0215) PMID 30291112 ↗

Publications

• Background Roth A, Huttmann A, Rother RP, Duhrsen U, Philipp T. Long-term efficacy of the complement inhibitor eculizumab in cold agglutinin disease. Blood. 2009 Apr 16;113(16):3885-6. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-01-196329. No abstract available.
• Background Roth A, Duhrsen U. Cold agglutinin disease. Eur J Haematol. 2010 Jan 1;84(1):91. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2009.01320.x. Epub 2009 Jul 14. No abstract available.
• Roth A, Bommer M, Huttmann A, Herich-Terhurne D, Kuklik N, Rekowski J, Lenz V, Schrezenmeier H, Duhrsen U. Eculizumab in cold agglutinin disease (DECADE): an open-label, prospective, bicentric, nonrandomized phase 2 trial. Blood Adv. 2018 Oct 9;2(19):2543-2549. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2018024190.

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