Pilot Study on Trametinib for Surgical Unruptured AVMs

Summary

Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a tangle of abnormal vessels that can progress through life and cause significant bleeding, deformity, pain, and deficits in day-to-day activities. Surgery is a common treatment option for patients with AVMs where the goal is to safely remove the entire AVM without causing complications. While any surgery has its potential risks, most of the potential modifiable risk factors relate to the AVM's structure, such as the AVM size or presence of high risk structural features seen on scans. The purpose of this pilot study is to see whether taking an oral medication called Trametinib can improve upon the AVM structure in adult patients before their scheduled surgery.

Timeline

Start

2024-01-30

Primary completion

2026-03-26

Completion

2026-03-26

Outcome

Outcome not reported

Stopped (Enrollment): “No patients enrolled”

Publications

• Background Mansur A, Radovanovic I. Vascular malformations: An overview of their molecular pathways, detection of mutational profiles and subsequent targets for drug therapy. Front Neurol. 2023 Feb 10;14:1099328. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1099328. eCollection 2023.
• Background Nikolaev SI, Fish JE, Radovanovic I. Somatic Activating KRAS Mutations in Arteriovenous Malformations of the Brain. N Engl J Med. 2018 Apr 19;378(16):1561-1562. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1802190. No abstract available.
• Background Fish JE, Flores Suarez CP, Boudreau E, Herman AM, Gutierrez MC, Gustafson D, DiStefano PV, Cui M, Chen Z, De Ruiz KB, Schexnayder TS, Ward CS, Radovanovic I, Wythe JD. Somatic Gain of KRAS Function in the Endothelium Is Sufficient to Cause Vascular Malformations That Require MEK but Not PI3K Signaling. Circ Res. 2020 Aug 28;127(6):727-743. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.316500. Epub 2020 Jun 17.
• Background Hong T, Yan Y, Li J, Radovanovic I, Ma X, Shao YW, Yu J, Ma Y, Zhang P, Ling F, Huang S, Zhang H, Wang Y. High prevalence of KRAS/BRAF somatic mutations in brain and spinal cord arteriovenous malformations. Brain. 2019 Jan 1;142(1):23-34. doi: 10.1093/brain/awy307.
• Background Nicholson CL, Flanagan S, Murati M, Boull C, McGough E, Ameduri R, Weigel B, Maguiness S. Successful management of an arteriovenous malformation with trametinib in a patient with capillary-malformation arteriovenous malformation syndrome and cardiac compromise. Pediatr Dermatol. 2022 Mar;39(2):316-319. doi: 10.1111/pde.14912. Epub 2022 Jan 10.
• Background Lekwuttikarn R, Lim YH, Admani S, Choate KA, Teng JMC. Genotype-Guided Medical Treatment of an Arteriovenous Malformation in a Child. JAMA Dermatol. 2019 Feb 1;155(2):256-257. doi: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2018.4653.
• Background Edwards EA, Phelps AS, Cooke D, Frieden IJ, Zapala MA, Fullerton HJ, Shimano KA. Monitoring Arteriovenous Malformation Response to Genotype-Targeted Therapy. Pediatrics. 2020 Sep;146(3):e20193206. doi: 10.1542/peds.2019-3206.
• Background Wright CJ, McCormack PL. Trametinib: first global approval. Drugs. 2013 Jul;73(11):1245-54. doi: 10.1007/s40265-013-0096-1.
• Background Couto JA, Huang AY, Konczyk DJ, Goss JA, Fishman SJ, Mulliken JB, Warman ML, Greene AK. Somatic MAP2K1 Mutations Are Associated with Extracranial Arteriovenous Malformation. Am J Hum Genet. 2017 Mar 2;100(3):546-554. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.01.018. Epub 2017 Feb 9.
• Avolio E, Bassani B, Campanile M, Mohammed KA, Muti P, Bruno A, Spinetti G, Madeddu P. Shared molecular, cellular, and environmental hallmarks in cardiovascular disease and cancer: Any place for drug repurposing? Pharmacol Rev. 2025 Mar;77(2):100033. doi: 10.1016/j.pharmr.2024.100033. Epub 2024 Dec 24.

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