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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT01531751
Date of registration: 11/01/2012
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo
Public title: High Cut-off Hemodialysis in Patients With Advanced Cardiac AL Amyloidosis and End Stage Renal Disease DIACAL
Scientific title: An Open Label Phase II Trial of Free Light Chain Removal by Extended High Cut-Off Hemodialysis in Patients With Advanced Cardiac AL Amyloidosis and End-Stage Renal Disease.
Date of first enrolment: February 2015
Target sample size: 0
Recruitment status: Withdrawn
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01531751
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: N/A. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
Italy
Contacts
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Diagnosis of AL amyloidosis.

- Age = 18 years.

- Evidence of a monoclonal light chain in serum and/or urine by positive immunofixation
and abnormal FLC ?/? ratio.

- Evidence of cardiac involvement at echocardiography (mean left ventricular wall
thickness > 12 mm in the absence of other causes).

- Cardiac stage III (both NT-proBNP > 332 ng/L and cTnI > 100 ng/L).

- Estimated GFR < 15 mL/min per 1.73 m2 or requiring dialysis.

- NYHA class III or IV.

- Initiation of chemotherapy for AL amyloidosis scheduled between day 3 and day 8 after
first HCO-HD session.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Non-AL (e.g. familial, senile) amyloidosis.

- Concomitant non-amyloid related clinically significant cardiac diseases.

- Involved (amyloidogenic) FLC < 100 mg/L.

- Inability to undergo chemotherapy for AL amyloidosis.

- Uncontrolled infection.

- Inability to give informed consent.

- Previous or ongoing psychiatric illness (excluding reactive depression).

- Pregnant or nursing women.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Primary Amyloidosis of Light Chain Type
Intervention(s)
Drug: Chemotherapy
Device: High Cut-off Hemodialysis
Primary Outcome(s)
Survival [Time Frame: 6 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
tolerability of the experimental device [Time Frame: 1 month]
Secondary ID(s)
AC-005-IT
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
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