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Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00010413
Date of registration: 02/02/2001
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Johns Hopkins University
Public title: Phase II Study of High-Dose Cyclophosphamide in Patients With Refractory Pemphigus
Scientific title:
Date of first enrolment: April 1999
Target sample size: 35
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00010413
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Grant J. Anhalt
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Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Johns Hopkins University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

PROTOCOL ENTRY CRITERIA:

--Disease Characteristics--

Definitive diagnosis of pemphigus, including all of the following: Typical clinical
lesions Histologically proven by skin or mucous membrane biopsy Pemphigus IgG
autoantibodies in skin or mucous membrane by direct immunofluorescence (IF) Circulating
pemphigus IgG autoantibodies in serum by indirect IF

Dependence on high-dose corticosteroids

Persistent disease activity despite treatment with mycophenolate mofetil or azathioprine,
or inability to tolerate these drugs (for paraneoplastic pemphigus, persistent disease
activity despite treatment with cyclosporine)

--Prior/Concurrent Therapy--

No concurrent cytotoxic therapy

--Patient Characteristics--

Performance status: Karnofsky 20-100%

Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2.5 mg/dL

Cardiovascular: LVEF at least 40%

Pulmonary: FVC, FEV1, or DLCO at least 50% predicted

Other: Not pregnant Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 9
months after study Not preterminal or moribund



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 70 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pemphigus
Intervention(s)
Drug: cyclophosphamide
Drug: filgrastim
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
JHOC-J9912
JHOC-99022610
199/15674
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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