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NCT Number: NCT04182373

KW-3357 Study in Patients With Early Onset Severe Preeclampsia

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of intravenous KW-3357 in patients with early-onset severe preeclampsia by comparing the prolongation days of pregnancy with that of placebo.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Primary location

Japanese Red Cross Aichi Medical Center Nagoya Daiichi Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi-ken, Japan

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients who gave written consent to participate in the clinical trial by their own free will.
  • Patients aged 18 years or older at the time of obtaining informed consent
  • Patients with early-onset PE* 24 weeks 0 days to 31 weeks 6 days of gestation at the time of enrollment

*: Determine the definition of gestational age based on the ""Guidelines for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Obstetrics, 2020""

  • Patients diagnosed with severe PE*

*: Follow the diagnostic criteria of the Japan Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy

  • Patients with AT activity of 100% or less in the preliminary examination

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients who are judged to require immediate delivery*

*""Best Practice Guide 2015 for Care and Treatment of Hypertension in Pregnancy"" Requirements for Considering Pregnancy Termination Regardless of Pregnancy Weeks in Pregnancy-induced Hypertension Syndrome Cases will be consulted for judgment.

  • Patients with right hypochondralgia or epigastralgia
  • Patients with HELLP syndromes
  • Patients with pulmonary edema
  • Patients with severe pleural effusion, severe ascites, or serous retinal detachment
  • Patients with central nervous system disorders (eclampsia, stroke) or visual disorders (cortical blindness)
  • Patients with severe headache or urge eclampsia
  • Patients with abruptio placentae
  • Suspected patients with 8 or more obstetric DIC scores
  • Patients with a definitive diagnosis of congenital AT deficiency
  • Patients with diseases or symptoms other than the primary disease requiring immediate delivery
  • Patients on ongoing treatment with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs, e.g., aspirin) or who require NSAIDs use during the course of the study.
  • Patients who have received the following drugs within 72 hours before administration of the investigational product, etc., or who require administration of the following drugs during the study period (from the start of administration of the investigational product, etc., until the date of termination of pregnancy); heparin, low-molecular-weight heparin (e.g., enoxaparin ordalteparin), fondaparinux, antiplatelet drugs (e.g., clopidogrel, prasugrel, aspirin), direct thrombin inhibitors (e.g., dabigatran), or anticoagulants (e.g., AT preparations).
  • Patients with a current or past history of serious drug allergy
  • Patients with a history or complication of drug dependence or alcoholism
  • Patients with hypersensitivity to AT preparations
  • Patients who are pregnant with a fetus with a chromosomal abnormality or a fetus suspected of having a serious malformation syndrome
  • Patients with multiple pregnancies
  • Patients with a history or complication of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
  • Patients with diabetes complicated pregnancy or obvious diabetes mellitus
  • Patients with uncontrollable or significant complications, including the following
  • Clinically significant cardiovascular diseases, etc. (New York Heart Association cardiac function classifications Class III or higher)
  • Serious hepatic disease
  • Serious renal disease
  • Pneumonia, interstitial lung disease or other severe respiratory disease
  • Blood disorders such as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
  • Psycho-central nervous system disorders that may affect informed consent
  • Endocrine disorders such as hyperthyroidism
  • Autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Patients with active malignancy or patients with a history of onset or treatment of malignancy within 5 years before pregnancy (excluding excised or surgically cured basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or ductal carcinoma of the breast, and excluding cervical intraepithelial neoplasia regardless of excised or surgically cured or not)
  • Patients with active infections (e.g., toxoplasma infection, genital chlamydia, genital herpes, cytomegalovirus infection)
  • Patients with a positive history for HIV antibody. Patients with a positive history for HBs antigen and HCV antibody and with active infection presenting with hepatitis symptoms.
  • Patients with any of the following laboratory abnormalities in preliminary examinations
  • Patients with AST or ALT 2 times the upper limit of the reference level of the trial site
  • Cr >=1.1 mg/dL
  • Patients who have participated in a clinical trial or equivalent study of a drug or medical device within 4 months before pregnancy (within 6 months for biologics) and have received the investigational drug or used an unapproved medical device
  • Other patients whom the principal investigator or the subinvestigator judges to be unfavorable for participation in the clinical trial

Treatment and study plan

Antithrombin gamma

Drug

Intravenous infusion, once a day, 7 days

physiological saline

Drug

Intravenous infusion, once a day, 7 days

Primary outcomes

  1. Days of maintaining pregnancy

    Time frame: Subjects will be observed until maternal and/or fetal indications for delivery necessitate cessation of expectant management or until approximately 34 0/7 weeks of gestation.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Presence or absence of achievement of 32 weeks of gestation

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  2. Presence or absence of achievement of 34 weeks of gestation

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  3. Presence or absence of achievement of 28 weeks of gestation in subjects enrolled in the period of less than 28 weeks of gestation

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  4. Change in AT activity

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8 at all time points and 3 days after termination of pregnancy

  5. Change in PLT concentration

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8 at all time points and 3 days after termination of pregnancy

  6. Change on D-dimer concentration

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8 at all time points

  7. Change in FDP concentration

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8 at all time points

  8. Sitting systolic blood pressure and sitting diastolic blood pressure

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8 at each time point, 3 days after termination of pregnancy, and 28 days after termination of pregnancy

  9. Proteinuria/creatinine ratio

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8 at each time point, 3 days after termination of pregnancy, and 28 days after termination of pregnancy

  10. Amount of blood lost during delivery

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  11. Biophysical Profile Score

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8 at each time point

    Minimum is 0, max is 10. Higher score means better condition.

  12. Fetal growth rate

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  13. Apgar score

    Time frame: At 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth

    Minimum is 0, max is 10. Higher score means better condition.

  14. Presence or absence of neonatal asphyxia

    Time frame: At 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth

  15. Birth weight

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  16. Neonatal growth

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

    Fetal growth is classified into small for gestational age (SGA), appropriate for gestational age (AGA), and large for gestational age (LGA).

  17. Head and chest circumferences at birth

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  18. Short-term prognosis of neonates (incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, intraventricular hemorrhage, periventricular leukolame, retinopathy of prematurity, sepsis, necrotizing enteritis, death, etc)

    Time frame: 28 days after termination of pregnancy

  19. The number of neonates who was hospitalized in the NICU

    Time frame: 28 days after termination of pregnancy

  20. The number of days in the NICU

    Time frame: 28 days after termination of pregnancy

  21. The number of neonates with respiratory management at the time of admission to the NICU

    Time frame: 28 days after termination of pregnancy

  22. The number of days of respiratory management at the time of admission to the NICU

    Time frame: 28 days after termination of pregnancy

Other outcomes

  1. Change in TNF-alpha at the time of examination

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8

  2. Change in interleukin (IL)-6 at the time of examination

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8

  3. Change in IL-10 at the time of examination

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8

  4. Change in hs-CRP at the time of examination

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8

  5. Change in sFlt-1 at the time of examination

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8

  6. Change in PlGF at the time of examination

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8

  7. Change in sFlt-1/PlGF at the time of examination

    Time frame: From baseline to Day 8

  8. Pulsatility index of the umbilical artery and middle cerebral artery

    Time frame: At the time of examination from baseline to Day 8

  9. Change in findings of the umbilical artery and middle cerebral artery

    Time frame: At the time of examination from baseline to Day 8

  10. Distribution of reasons for termination of pregnancy

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  11. Prolongation days of pregnancy by reason of termination of pregnancy

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  12. Mode of delivery

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  13. Presence or absence of stillbirth

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study. Neonates will be assessed after delivery.

  14. Placental weight

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  15. Presence or absence of placental infarction

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  16. Umbilical arterial blood gas at termination of pregnancy

    Time frame: 28 days before the end of study

  17. Presence or absence of HELLP syndromes and onset of symptoms

    Time frame: During the course of the clinical trial. Period from the day of commencement of administration of the investigational drug to Day 28 after the delivery

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd.

Industry

Collaborators

  • Japan Blood Products Organization

Registry information

Official study title

A Phase 3, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double Blind Study of KW-3357 in Patients With Early Onset Severe Preeclampsia

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Dec 2, 2019
Registry last updated
Nov 15, 2023

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