A Phase 2 interventional study of Rituximab in Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating, sponsored by Istituto Clinico Humanitas. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in Italy. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-05-26.
Sponsored by Istituto Clinico Humanitas · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
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Among 28 studies in Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating with a site in Italy — 11 open to participants now, 15 under way, 8 of them phase 3. Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating · Italy.
Among the 28 studies in Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating with a site in Italy, this one is the 25th largest by enrollment of the 26 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 2 that started in 2019, is one of 7 in phase 2, reaches primary completion later than 0 of the 14 other live ones, and was the 14th registered.
137 studies on the registry are indexed under Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating; 51 are open to participants now.
Browse Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating studies →11 of the 28 studies in Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating with a site in Italy are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:
argenx · Sites in Italy, United States, Argentina and 22 more countries
Ages 18+
argenx · Sites in Italy, United States, Argentina and 28 more countries
Ages 18+
Takeda · Sites in Italy, United States, Argentina and 8 more countries
Ages 18+
Immunovant Sciences GmbH · Sites in Italy, United States, Argentina and 27 more countries
Ages 18+
Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta · Sites in Italy
Ages 18+
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Of the 36 Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating studies recruiting now, 24 (67%) set no upper age limit and 9 (25%) stop at 75 or younger; 4 take children under 18; 2 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.
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28 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
A study in two phases is counted once above. Listed by phase, each with its combined phases: Phase 2 8 · Phase 3 17 · Phase 4 1
First in 2004; this study’s year is marked. 2 started in 2019.
By drug class, each counting the studies that test any of its medicines:
This study's enrollment of 20 is below the median of 37 across 85 interventional studies indexed under Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating.
Median enrollment 113 across the 26 interventional studies, 159 across the 2 observational. Of the 13 that completed or were terminated, 9 (69%) have results posted.
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23 of 28 have an industry lead sponsor. The 10 most frequent:
Istituto Clinico Humanitas is the lead sponsor of 279 studies on the registry; 70 are open to participants now.
Istituto Clinico Humanitas has 3 studies filed under Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating — fewer than ten, so there is no comparison to draw.
6 of the studies in Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating with a site in Italy that are under way reach primary completion within a year, 4 of them phase 3. Phase 3 first, then by date:
| Study | Primary completion |
|---|---|
| NCT05327114Phase 3Janssen Research & Development, LLCEfficacy and Safety Study of Nipocalimab for Adults With Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) | 2026-12-15 |
| NCT06290141Phase 3SanofiA Study to Test the Efficacy and Safety of Riliprubart Against the Usual Treatment of Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIg) in People With Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) | 2027-07-09 |
| NCT06920004Phase 3argenxA Study to Assess Efficacy and Safety of Empasiprubart Versus IVIg in Adults With CIDP | 2027-09 |
| NCT07091630Phase 3argenxA Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Empasiprubart in Adults With CIDP | 2027-10-07 |
| NCT04280718argenxA Study to Assess the Long-term Safety and Efficacy of a Subcutaneous Formulation of Efgartigimod in Adults With Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP, an Autoimmune Disorder That Affects the Peripheral Nerves) | 2027-04-30 |
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Among the 28 studies in Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating with a site in Italy, from their registry updates:
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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a chronic and often disabling neuropathy that often responds to immune therapies. A few phenotypes have been identified even if it is unclear whether they are variants of CIDP or different diseases considering their relatively different responses to therapy. Antibodies against proteins at the node of Ranvier, including contactin 1 and neurofascin 155, have been reported in up to 10% of the patients and were associated to a poor response to CIDP therapy but a positive response to Rituximab supporting the heterogeneity of CIDP. We will examine these antibodies in a large population of Italian CIDP patients included in a Database and correlate their presence with the clinical and electrophysiological features of the neuropathy, its progression and response to therapy. We will perform an open label prospective therapeutic study with Rituximab in patients with CIDP not responsive to conventional immune therapies and will correlate the response to therapy to the clinical phenotype and the presence of anti-neural antibodies.This may lead to a more appropriate choice of therapy in CIDP avoiding the use of expensive and possibly ineffective therapy. We will also collect the biological samples (serum and when available CSF) of the patients with CIDP and store them to allow the formation of a biological bank that may be used in future immunological studies to clarify the pathogenesis a of the disease and possibly to identify biomarkers of the disease and of response to therapy. This study will permit to collect a sufficiently large number of adequately and homogeneously examined patients with CIDP, with different antibody reactivities and with unsatisfactory response to therapy. This will permit to have sufficiently large number of patients to perform an open-label study with Rituximab whose efficacy has been so far reported only in anecdotal reports on small number of patients.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Subject has a current diagnosis or has a history of Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes mellitus 2. Subject has IgM paraproteinemia with anti-myelin associated glycoprotein antibodies 3. Subject has Multifocal Motor Neuropathy with conduction block (MMN) 4. Clinical or known evidence of associated medical conditions that might cause neuropathy, including but not limited to connective tissue disease, Lyme disease, cancer (with the exclusion of benign skin cancer), Castleman's disease and systemic lupus erythematosus, malignant plasma cell dyscrasia, lymphoma, osteosclerotic myeloma, POEMS, or assumption of agents that may lead to neuropathy (eg, amiodarone therapy).
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You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
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Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
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Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Platelets
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Clinically significant
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
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HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis B tests
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis C tests
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Immunosuppression
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.
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Live vaccines
Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hypersensitivity
An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.
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Drug: Rituximab
Open label proof-of-concept study with intravenous Rituximab, given at the dose of 1g in one day, followed by the same dose after two weeks
Inflammatory Neuropathy Cause and Treatment (INCAT) Disability Scale
The proportion of patients with CIDP not responsive to conventional immune therapies that improve after therapy with rituximab
Time frame: 6 months
Medical Research Council sum score
The proportion of patients with CIDP not responsive to conventional immune therapies that improve after therapy with rituximab
Time frame: 6 months
Inflammatory Rasch-built Overall Disability Scale (I-RODS)
The proportion of patients with CIDP not responsive to conventional immune therapies that improve after therapy with rituximab
Time frame: 6 months
Inflammatory Neuropathy Cause and Treatment (INCAT) Disability Scale
Proportion of patients with CIDP not responsive to conventional immune therapies that improve after therapy with rituximab
Time frame: 12 months
Medical Research Council sum score
Proportion of patients with CIDP not responsive to conventional immune therapies that improve after therapy with rituximab
Time frame: 12 months
Inflammatory Rasch-built Overall Disability Scale (I-RODS)
Proportion of patients with CIDP not responsive to conventional immune therapies that improve after therapy with rituximab
Time frame: 12 months
Treatment discontinuation
Proportion of patients discontinuing treatment with rituximab due to side effects or voluntary withdrawal or developing these effects within 12 months following treatment
Time frame: 12 months
Duration of clinical improvement after therapy with rituximab
Time frame: 24 months
Proportion of patients that improve 6 and 12 months after therapy with rituximab in subgroups defined according to the presence or absence of antibody reactivities
Time frame: 6 and 12 months
Proportion of patients that improve 6 and 12 months after therapy with rituximab in subgroups defined according to the CIDP clinical form (typical or atypical)
Time frame: 6 and 12 months
Ran from Jun 2019 to primary completion in Mar 2023, 45 months.
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Studies of the drug tested here: Rituximab
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