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NCT Number: NCT06617182

Efficacy and Safety of Thalidomide Combined With Glutamine in the Treatment of Radiation Intestinal Injury.

At present, there is still a lack of standard and effective treatment strategies and procedures for radiation intestinal injury. Studies have shown that thalidomide can effectively treat refractory gastrointestinal bleeding caused by vascular malformation. Therefore, The investigators designed a single-center, open-label, randomized controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of thalidomide combined with glutamine in the treatment of radiation intestinal injury.

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Key information

Conditions

Age range

18 year–80 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

State Key Laboratory of Holistic Integrative Management of Gastrointestinal Cancers, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Ch

Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710005, China

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Yongquan Shi Prof.Shi, Dr

CONTACT

[email protected]

02984771535

About this study

Screening: This phase will not last longer than one week, and the subject will be assessed for eligibility after signing the informed consent form.

Treatment: Subjects were randomly assigned to three different treatment groups for 8 weeks.

Follow-up: The subjects' defecation status was recorded every day during treatment, telephone follow-up was conducted every two weeks, and laboratory indicators (including blood routine, stool routine, etc.) were tested every four weeks. The test was terminated one week after treatment and the improvement of subjects' stool blood was assessed.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age 18-80 years old, gender is not limited;
  • Patients with hematochezia symptoms of chronic radiation intestinal injury: Due to the lack of diagnostic gold standard for radiation intestinal injury, a comprehensive analysis of clinical, endoscopic, imaging and histopathological findings was mainly performed to make the diagnosis of radiation intestinal injury on the basis of excluding infectious and other non-infectious intestinal injuries. Exposure to radioactive sources is a necessary factor in the diagnosis of radiation intestinal injury, and tumor activity or recurrence should be excluded.
  • The proportion of dominant defecation bleeding in total defecation times in the week before treatment is not less than 20%;
  • ECOG score: 0-2.

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients with hemodynamic instability;
  • Patients with obvious liver and kidney function injury: bilirubin, aminotransferase (ALT, AST) exceeded the upper limit of normal by 2 times; eGFR<60ml/min or dialysis patients;
  • Patients allergic to thalidomide or glutamine;
  • Patients whose primary disease was gastrointestinal malignancy;
  • Patients currently suffering from serious or uncontrolled underlying diseases of the blood, digestive tract, metabolism, endocrine, lung, heart, nervous system, mental system, etc.;
  • Female patients during pregnancy and breastfeeding (including patients with reproductive needs);
  • Patients infected with HIV;
  • Patients who cannot cooperate with regular follow-up and review of laboratory indicators;
  • any other circumstances which, in the opinion of the investigator, would render the subject unfit for study inclusion.

Treatment and study plan

thalidomide

Drug

Patients in thalidomide group took thalidomide orally at a dose of 100mg once a day for 8 weeks.

glutamine

Drug

In the glutamine group, two capsules of glutamine were taken orally 3 times a day for 8 weeks.

Other names: Compound glutamine enteric-coated capsules

Thalidomide+Glutamine

Drug

Patients in thalidomide combined with glutamine group took thalidomide orally at a dose of 100mg once a day and two capsules of glutamine were taken orally 3 times a day for 8 weeks.

Primary outcomes

  1. Treatment response rate.

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 8 weeks.

    The proportion of overt defecation bleeding in total defecation within 1 week after treatment was reduced by ≥50% compared with 1 week before treatment.

Secondary outcomes

  1. No further bleeding occurred within 1 week after treatment

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 8 weeks.

    Stool occult blood negative 2 times in a row on different dates

  2. Number of blood transfusions during the treatment period

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 8 weeks.

    times

  3. Red blood cell input

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 8 weeks.

    Input red blood cells according to the situation

  4. Hemoglobin level

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 8 weeks.

    Record each test result

  5. Number of hospitalizations due to bleeding

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 8 weeks.

    times

  6. Number of days in hospital due to bleeding

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 8 weeks.

    days

  7. Require surgery

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 8 weeks.

    yes or no

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Yongquan Shi

CONTACT

[email protected]

0086 + 02984771515

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Yongquan Shi

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Efficacy and Safety of Thalidomide Combined With Glutamine in the Treatment of Radiation Intestinal Injury: a Single-center, Open-label, Randomized Controlled Study

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2028
Study completion
2028
First posted
Sep 27, 2024
Registry last updated
Mar 27, 2026

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