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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT01950585
Date of registration: 21/09/2013
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Public title: Hydroxyurea in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Scientific title: Hydroxyurea in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Date of first enrolment: September 6, 2013
Target sample size: 0
Recruitment status: Withdrawn
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01950585
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Early Phase 1
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Moonjung Jung, M.D.
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Affiliation:  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

- INCLUSION CRITERIA:

- Age greater than or equal to 18 years old

- Patients with idiopathic or familial PAH with WHO II-III performance status

- On PAH medications that have not changed and are stable for the past two months

- Seronegative for HIV antibody, hepatitis B antigen, and hepatitis C antibody.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

- Thrombocytopenia with platelets less than 100,000/mm3, anemia with hemoglobin less
than 10.5g/dL or neutropenia with ANC less than 1500/mm3

- Creatinine > 2.0mg/dL

- Hepatic insufficiency (transaminase levels >4 fold the upper limit of normal or
bilirubin >2 fold the upper limit of normal)

- Severe arterial hypertension (systolic blood pressure >200mmHg or diastolic >120mmHg)

- Female subjects who are nursing or pregnant or are unwilling to take oral
contraceptives or refrain from pregnancy if of childbearing potential

- Participation in any other investigative treatment studies at the time of enrollment

- Unable to understand the investigational nature of the study or give informed consent
(i.e. decisionally impaired)

- Evidence of major bleeding or active infection

- Known allergy to the study drug or drugs similar to the study drug

- Subjects with known liver cirrhosis or chronic active hepatitis.

- HIV positivity

- Moribund status or concurrent hepatic, renal, cardiac, neurologic, pulmonary,
infectious, or metabolic disease of such severity that it would preclude the patient s
ability to tolerate protocol therapy, or that death within 30 days is likely

- Presence of 9;22 BCR/ABL translocation as detected by conventional bone marrow
cytogenetics or PCR for BCR/ABL transcript, or presence of JAK2 V617F mutation in bone
marrow or peripheral blood cells.

- On beta-blocker therapy requiring dose adjustment.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 110 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pulmonary Hypertension
Intervention(s)
Drug: Hydroxyurea
Primary Outcome(s)
The change in concentration of CD34+ circulating progenitors from baseline to 6 months (24 weeks (+/- 7 days)) on hydroxyurea. [Time Frame: ongoing]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
130203
13-H-0203
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
The Cleveland Clinic
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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Date Completed:
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