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NCT Number: NCT05989958

The Safety ,Tolerability and Efficacy Study of HepaCure in Chinese Subjects with Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure

This is a multicenter, randomized, controlled, open-label phase 1/2 clinical study conducted in China to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of hiHep cell-based bio-artificial liver support system (HepaCure) plus DPMAS versus DPMAS alone in Chinese subjects with acute-on-chronic liver failure(ACLF).

Phase 1 is a multicenter, open label study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of single dose and multiple doses of HepaCure with different treatment duration plus DPMAS in ACLF subjects respectively.

Phase 2 is a multicenter, randomized and controlled open label study to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of HepaCure plus DPMAS and LPE in ACLF subjects

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Key information

Age range

18 year–65 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1 / Phase 2

Primary location

Beijing You'an Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, 100069, China

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

YU Chen, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

8610-83997599

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Able to communicate effectively with investigators and sign the informed consent form (ICF) voluntarily.
  • Age: ≥ 18 years and ≤ 65 years.
  • Body weight: ≥ 40kg;
  • Met the criteria of ACLF in the early and middle stages in screening period (Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Liverfilture (2018 Edition)): base on chronic liver disease, acute jaundice deepened and coagulation dysfunction caused by various inducements, manifested as extreme fatigue, with obvious gastrointestinal symptoms such as anorexia, vomiting, abdominal distention, etc; Progressive deepening of jaundice, serum TBil ≥ 171 μmol/L or increase ≥ 17.1 μmol/L daily or ≥10 × upper limit of normal value; with bleeding tendencies or manifestations (bleeding spots or ecchymosis), or 20%<PTA ≤ 40% (or 1.5 ≤ INR<2.6), and other reasons excluded.

Exclusion criteria

  • Subjects with primary or metastatic liver cancer.
  • Subjects with severe esophageal/gastric varices and high risk of bleeding, with positive red signs, or with previous active bleeding, as indicated by gastroscopy or imaging examination results.
  • Serum creatinine was greater than 132.6 μmol/L.
  • Subjects with serious uncontrolled infections, including sepsis, septic shock, severe pneumonia (refers to the diagnostic criteria of the American Society of Infectious Diseases/American Thoracic Society for adult severe pneumonia in 2007), abdominal infection (exist Peritonitis manifestations or white blood cells in ascites>0.1 × 10 9/L after reasonable antibiotic treatment), etc;

Treatment and study plan

HepaCure

Combination Product

HepaCure will be administered in extracorporal dialysis following the treatment of DPMAS and LPE.

DPMAS and LPE

Device

Using DPMAS and LPE for extracorporeal dialysis treatment.

Primary outcomes

  1. Safety outcome

    Time frame: From the initiation of treatment until 14 days after the end of study treatment.]

    Based on the recorded adverse events (AE), serious adverse events (SAE), adverse events of special interest (AESI), and device deficiencies (such as leakage caused by the inherent quality issues of the plasma bio-purification column), the safety from the start of the study treatment until 14 days after the end of the study treatment was evaluated.(Phase I)

  2. survival rate

    Time frame: 12 weeks after the initial treatment]

    The survival rate without liver transplantation at 12 weeks after the first treatment.(PhaseⅡ) Absolute change from baseline in the MELD score of subjects at week 4 after the first treatment. (PhaseⅡ)

Study contacts

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

YU Chen, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

8610-83997599

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Hexaell Biotech Co., Ltd.

Industry

Registry information

Official study title

A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled, Open-Label Phase 1/2 Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of HepaCure Plus DPMAS Versus DPMAS Alone in Chinese Subjects with Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Aug 14, 2023
Registry last updated
Feb 25, 2025

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