An Open-label Study of Intravenous Immunoglobulin (5%) for the Treatment of Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia

Inclusion criteria

• At the time of signing the informed consent form, male or female patients aged ≥ 18 years and ≤ 65 years;
• Patients with clinically confirmed chronic ITP (i.e., the course of disease > 12 months from diagnosis to signing the informed consent form);
• Patients who did not use glucocorticoids for at least 2 weeks before the first dose or used a maintenance dose of glucocorticoids for at least 2 weeks before the first dose, and did not plan to increase the dosage of glucocorticoids or add other platelet-elevating drugs within 4 weeks after the first dose;
• Platelet count < 30 × 109/L;
• Patients who understand the procedures and methods of this study, are willing to sign the informed consent form and complete the study in strict accordance with the clinical study protocol.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are known or suspected to be allergic to human immunoglobulin or other plasma proteins and/or blood products, as well as excipients of the investigational drug, including those with a history of steroid hormone allergy;
• BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2;
• Secondary thrombocytopenia;
• Patients with the following clinical manifestations or disease history at screening:

• Hemoglobin <90 g/L or combined with immune hemolytic anemia;

• Chronic or recurrent neutropenia (defined as absolute neutrophil count < 1.5 × 109/L);

• Patients with abnormal liver function: defined as ALT and/or AST > 3 times of the upper limit of normal; and/or total bilirubin ≥ 1.5 times of the upper limit of normal;

• Patients with related diseases of renal impairment, or serum creatinine ≥ 1.5 times the upper limit of normal value or creatinine clearance < 60 mL/min; ⑤. Patients with dysglycemia, including: Confirmed diagnosis of type 1/2 diabetes mellitus with HbA1c ≥7.0%, Fasting glucose ≥7.0 mmol/L (126 mg/dL), or Random glucose ≥11.1 mmol/L (200 mg/dL);

⑥. Blood diseases with coagulation factor defects;

⑦. Selective IgA deficiency patients with anti-IgA antibodies;

⑧. Patients with uncontrollable hypertension (SBP>160 mmHg or DBP>100 mmHg) or hypotension (SBP<90 mmHg or DBP<60 mmHg);

⑨. Patients with hyperviscosity, severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (such as TIA, stroke, thrombotic disease, congestive heart failure of NYHA classification III/IV, arrhythmia requiring drug therapy (unstable angina pectoris) or myocardial infarction, etc.) and other serious systemic diseases before signing the informed consent form, who are not suitable for enrollment as judged by the investigator;

⑩. Suffering from mental illness, obvious mental disorder or epilepsy; incapacitated or cognitively impaired;

• Patients who failed to respond to previous treatment with human immunoglobulin for intravenous injection or anti-D human immunoglobulin;
• Patients who had received treatment with human immunoglobulin for intravenous injection or anti-D human immunoglobulin within 4 weeks prior to the first dose, or any other treatment with blood, blood products or blood derivatives within 4 weeks before signing the informed consent form;
• Patients who have received recombinant human thrombopoietin or eltrombopag and other receptor agonists within 2 weeks prior to the first dose (except for those who are ineffective after stable treatment > 2 weeks), or other drugs with clear indications of increasing platelet count;
• Patients who have received immunosuppressive or other immunomodulatory drugs within 3 weeks prior to the first dose (except for the following cases: glucocorticoids with stable dose and no dose change for > 2 weeks, and patients who failed to respond to stable treatment with azathioprine, cyclophosphamide or danazol for > 12 weeks);
• Patients who received rituximab within 8 weeks prior to the first dose;
• Patients who have been vaccinated with live attenuated vaccines within 8 weeks prior to the first dose or are planned to be vaccinated during the trial treatment, such as poliomyelitis vaccine, measles vaccine, rubella vaccine, mumps vaccine and varicella virus vaccine; patients who are planned to be vaccinated with measles vaccine within 1 year after the administration of the investigational drug;
• Patients scheduled for surgery during the trial and requiring transfusion of blood or blood products;
• Those who planned to continue taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, warfarin and other drugs that affect platelet aggregation or coagulation function due to medical history during the trial;
• Patients who tested positive for any of HBs antigen (or nucleic acid test), HCV antibody (or nucleic acid test), Treponema pallidum antibody and HIV antibody (or nucleic acid test) at screening;
• Acute bacterial or acute viral infections that still require antibiotic treatment after enrollment;
• Pregnant and lactating women who have aborted for less than 30 days before signing the informed consent form (currently breastfeeding or currently not artificially breastfeeding but less than one year after delivery); female patients or spouses of male patients who plan to get pregnant or donate eggs or male patients who donate sperm during the trial and within 90 days after the last dose, and effective contraception cannot be guaranteed;
• Patients with a history of drug abuse or drug addiction;
• Patients who have participated (already included) in clinical trials of other drugs or medical devices within 3 months before signing the informed consent form;
• The survival time is expected to be less than 3 months, or the patients with other concomitant diseases are severely ill and may be dying during the treatment period and follow-up period. In the investigator's opinion, the efficacy cannot be evaluated or it is unlikely to complete the expected course of treatment and follow-up;
• Patients with poor compliance or who are not suitable to participate in this trial for other reasons as judged by the investigator.